diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm
index 7c36e67498..439e369fe4 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/games.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/games.scm
@@ -6620,7 +6620,9 @@ (define-public tome4
        ("vorbis" ,libvorbis)
        ("luajit" ,luajit)))
     (arguments
-     `(#:make-flags '("CC=gcc" "config=release")
+     `(#:make-flags
+       (list (string-append "CC=" ,(cc-for-target))
+             "config=release")
        ;; XXX: Building in parallel occasionally causes this build failure:
        ;;   ../src/luajit2/src/host/buildvm.c:73:10: fatal error: buildvm_arch.h:
        ;;   No such file or directory