diff --git a/zbar.changes b/zbar.changes
index 334cd3d..53b5371 100644
--- a/zbar.changes
+++ b/zbar.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Mar  8 17:31:33 UTC 2019 - olaf@aepfle.de
+
+- Use gcc7 in SLE_12
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Feb 15 08:14:02 UTC 2019 - Martin Pluskal <mpluskal@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/zbar.spec b/zbar.spec
index 6170c61..1087fb9 100644
--- a/zbar.spec
+++ b/zbar.spec
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Group:          Productivity/Other
 URL:            http://zbar.sourceforge.net/
 Source0:        https://linuxtv.org/downloads/%{name}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source98:       baselibs.conf
+%if 0%{?suse_version} < 1500
+BuildRequires:  gcc7
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig >= 0.9.0
 BuildRequires:  xmlto
@@ -97,6 +100,9 @@ applications using the zbar-qt library.
 %setup -q
 
 %build
+test -x "$(type -p gcc)" && export CC=$_
+test -x "$(type -p gcc-7)" && export CC=$_
+test -x "$(type -p gcc-8)" && export CC=$_
 %configure \
   --docdir=%{_docdir}/%{name} \
   --disable-static \