diff --git a/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-1.0.4.ebuild b/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-1.0.4.ebuild
index 310b8cf739..e3a5bc0252 100644
--- a/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-1.0.4.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-1.0.4.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
 DESCRIPTION="List Wayland toplevels"
 HOMEPAGE="https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt/"
 
@@ -22,6 +24,10 @@ DEPEND="dev-libs/wayland"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="dev-util/wayland-scanner"
 
+src_compile() {
+	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)"
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	# Need to install to /usr instead of /usr/local
 	# and the Makefile doens't handle DESTDIR properly
diff --git a/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-9999.ebuild b/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-9999.ebuild
index 310b8cf739..e3a5bc0252 100644
--- a/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-9999.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/lswt/lswt-9999.ebuild
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 EAPI=8
 
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
 DESCRIPTION="List Wayland toplevels"
 HOMEPAGE="https://git.sr.ht/~leon_plickat/lswt/"
 
@@ -22,6 +24,10 @@ DEPEND="dev-libs/wayland"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="dev-util/wayland-scanner"
 
+src_compile() {
+	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)"
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	# Need to install to /usr instead of /usr/local
 	# and the Makefile doens't handle DESTDIR properly