diff --git a/package/libcamera/Config.in b/package/libcamera/Config.in
index 1ea747d1c57e..262ea49a0ead 100644
--- a/package/libcamera/Config.in
+++ b/package/libcamera/Config.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCAMERA
 	bool "libcamera"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5 # C++14
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # C++17
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # gnutls
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # gnutls
 	# Invalid packing size of ControlValue struct on m68k
@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCAMERA_PIPELINE_VIMC
 
 endif # BR2_PACKAGE_LIBCAMERA
 
-comment "libcamera needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, dynamic library, gcc >= 5"
+comment "libcamera needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, dynamic library, gcc >= 7"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_5 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR