diff --git a/pkgs/games/zdoom/bcc-git.nix b/pkgs/games/zdoom/bcc-git.nix
index ce531e854edf..2a1219e66ea0 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/zdoom/bcc-git.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/zdoom/bcc-git.nix
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  makeFlags = ["CC=cc"];
 
   patches = [ ./bcc-warning-fix.patch ];