diff --git a/package/stella/0001-configure-add-CC.patch b/package/stella/0001-configure-add-CC.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4b29e39b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/stella/0001-configure-add-CC.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 143cf9fa13a07b827de7065a5e919631406b0941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 22:46:52 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] configure: add CC (#854)
+
+Add CC to fix the following build failure when cross-compiling which is
+raised since
+https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/commit/771b5b44e31de1b81a552ee47b65014fbc338776:
+
+out/src/sqlite/sqlite3.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized
+
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+[Retrieved from:
+https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/commit/143cf9fa13a07b827de7065a5e919631406b0941]
+---
+ configure | 1 +
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
+
+diff --git a/configure b/configure
+index df666b377..0101d2567 100755
+--- a/configure
++++ b/configure
+@@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ echo "Creating config.mak"
+ cat > config.mak << EOF
+ # -------- Generated by configure -----------
+ 
++CC := $CC
+ CXX := $CXX
+ CXXFLAGS := $CXXFLAGS
+ LD := $LD
diff --git a/package/stella/Config.in b/package/stella/Config.in
index 7722f8a540..b5d148489a 100644
--- a/package/stella/Config.in
+++ b/package/stella/Config.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_STELLA
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # sdl2
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_6 # C++14
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # C++17
 	depends on !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_64735 # exception_ptr
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_SDL2
 	help
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_STELLA
 
 	  https://stella-emu.github.io/
 
-comment "stella needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, C++, threads, gcc >= 6"
+comment "stella needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, C++, threads, gcc >= 7"
 	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_6
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7
 
 comment "stella needs a toolchain not affected by GCC bug 64735"
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_GCC_BUG_64735
diff --git a/package/stella/stella.hash b/package/stella/stella.hash
index c40d96616a..8aa5118165 100644
--- a/package/stella/stella.hash
+++ b/package/stella/stella.hash
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Locally computed:
-sha256  0346900e9ba4b6d532b72d956adc5078502a9bd6bbc1648bb3dd68f5ffd4859b  stella-6.4-src.tar.xz
-sha256  d207ee9e563fdd062582df8cbb6c8303b9879bd107692c0db2a32477e47dfa35  Copyright.txt
+sha256  d481efc6d27b5294565dfcc10983de2dbc4db8a59932a678ffdb4d2404b8c207  stella-6.6-src.tar.xz
+sha256  d5e5897578c2590e48328986cebd950ff215653f7f506ef93accf981870366a6  Copyright.txt
 sha256  58530d09b6fcb91ae27071be0081af90e6c2d7fdf991d34a29e234a2a5e75455  License.txt
diff --git a/package/stella/stella.mk b/package/stella/stella.mk
index 9e21606155..198a1134dc 100644
--- a/package/stella/stella.mk
+++ b/package/stella/stella.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-STELLA_VERSION = 6.4
+STELLA_VERSION = 6.6
 STELLA_SOURCE = stella-$(STELLA_VERSION)-src.tar.xz
 STELLA_SITE = https://github.com/stella-emu/stella/releases/download/$(STELLA_VERSION)
 STELLA_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+