diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index 3b72f3efdd..5ef735fcf8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ ENABLE_WIDEC ?= "true"
 # _GNU_SOURCE is required for widec stuff and is not detected automatically
 CPPFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE"
 
+# Check if we still need it when next release (6.6) happens
+CFLAGS += "-std=gnu17"
+BUILD_CFLAGS += "-std=gnu17"
+
 # natives don't generally look in base_libdir
 base_libdir:class-native = "${libdir}"