diff --git a/quickjs.changes b/quickjs.changes
index 1d6e43f..b7069d1 100644
--- a/quickjs.changes
+++ b/quickjs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Apr  6 17:32:39 UTC 2023 - Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.com>
+
+- Requires at least gcc 7 to get stdatomic.h
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Mar 27 19:38:00 UTC 2021 - Avindra Goolcharan <avindra@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/quickjs.spec b/quickjs.spec
index c84072f..10a2a19 100644
--- a/quickjs.spec
+++ b/quickjs.spec
@@ -25,7 +25,13 @@ License:        MIT
 URL:            https://bellard.org/quickjs/
 Source0:        https://bellard.org/quickjs/%{name}-%{ver}.tar.xz
 Source10:       quickjs-rpmlintrc
-BuildRequires:  c_compiler
+%if 0%{?suse_version} && 0%{?suse_version} < 1500
+# /usr/include/c++/12/stdatomic.h
+BuildRequires:  gcc7-c++
+%define compiler CC=gcc-7
+%else
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  make
 
 %description
@@ -52,10 +58,10 @@ LDFLAGS += %{optflags}
 EOF
 
 %build
-%make_build prefix=%{_prefix}
+%make_build %{?compiler} prefix=%{_prefix}
 
 %install
-%make_install prefix=%{_prefix}
+%make_install %{?compiler} prefix=%{_prefix}
 #remove extraneous binary
 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/quickjs/libquickjs.lto.a