diff --git a/package/vlc/Config.in b/package/vlc/Config.in
index 9c9d0281e3..ec1daf4fef 100644
--- a/package/vlc/Config.in
+++ b/package/vlc/Config.in
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ endif
 config BR2_PACKAGE_VLC
 	bool "vlc"
 	depends on (BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_SNAPSHOT || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) # spawn.h
+	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_LARGEFILE
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
@@ -16,5 +17,5 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_VLC
 
 	  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
 
-comment "vlc needs a uclibc snapshot or (e)glibc toolchain w/ largefile, wchar, threads"
-	depends on !(BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_SNAPSHOT || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) || !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+comment "vlc needs a uclibc snapshot or (e)glibc toolchain w/ C++, largefile, wchar, threads"
+	depends on !(BR2_UCLIBC_VERSION_SNAPSHOT || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC) || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_LARGEFILE || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS