diff --git a/depends/hosts/darwin.mk b/depends/hosts/darwin.mk
index 70211078b..bb04d62ec 100644
--- a/depends/hosts/darwin.mk
+++ b/depends/hosts/darwin.mk
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-OSX_MIN_VERSION=10.8
+OSX_MIN_VERSION=10.11
 OSX_SDK_VERSION=10.11
 OSX_SDK=$(SDK_PATH)/MacOSX$(OSX_SDK_VERSION).sdk
 LD64_VERSION=253.9
-darwin_CC=gcc-5 -target $(host) -mmacosx-version-min=$(OSX_MIN_VERSION) --sysroot $(OSX_SDK) -mlinker-version=$(LD64_VERSION)
-darwin_CXX=g++-5 -target $(host) -mmacosx-version-min=$(OSX_MIN_VERSION) --sysroot $(OSX_SDK) -mlinker-version=$(LD64_VERSION)
+darwin_CC=gcc-6 -target $(host) -mmacosx-version-min=$(OSX_MIN_VERSION) --sysroot $(OSX_SDK) -mlinker-version=$(LD64_VERSION)
+darwin_CXX=g++-6 -target $(host) -mmacosx-version-min=$(OSX_MIN_VERSION) --sysroot $(OSX_SDK) -mlinker-version=$(LD64_VERSION)
 
 darwin_CFLAGS=-pipe
 darwin_CXXFLAGS=$(darwin_CFLAGS)