diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 6703038bedf..3b7746527f8 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ if selected_platform in platform_list:
     if env["extra_suffix"] != '':
         env.extra_suffix += '.' + env["extra_suffix"]
 
+    # Environment flags
     CCFLAGS = env.get('CCFLAGS', '')
     env['CCFLAGS'] = ''
     env.Append(CCFLAGS=str(CCFLAGS).split())
@@ -307,17 +308,28 @@ if selected_platform in platform_list:
     env['LINKFLAGS'] = ''
     env.Append(LINKFLAGS=str(LINKFLAGS).split())
 
+    # Platform specific flags
     flag_list = platform_flags[selected_platform]
     for f in flag_list:
         if not (f[0] in ARGUMENTS):  # allow command line to override platform flags
             env[f[0]] = f[1]
 
-    # must happen after the flags, so when flags are used by configure, stuff happens (ie, ssl on x11)
+    # Must happen after the flags definition, so that they can be used by platform detect
     detect.configure(env)
 
-    # Enable C++11 support
+    # Set our C and C++ standard requirements.
+    # Prepending to make it possible to override
+    # This needs to come after `configure`, otherwise we don't have env.msvc.
     if not env.msvc:
-        env.Append(CXXFLAGS=['-std=c++11'])
+        # Specifying GNU extensions support explicitly, which are supported by
+        # both GCC and Clang. This mirrors GCC and Clang's current default
+        # compile flags if no -std is specified.
+        env.Prepend(CFLAGS=['-std=gnu11'])
+        env.Prepend(CXXFLAGS=['-std=gnu++14'])
+    else:
+        # MSVC doesn't have clear C standard support, /std only covers C++.
+        # We apply it to CCFLAGS (both C and C++ code) in case it impacts C features.
+        env.Prepend(CCFLAGS=['/std:c++14'])
 
     # Configure compiler warnings
     if env.msvc:
diff --git a/platform/android/detect.py b/platform/android/detect.py
index 8b62360888e..8f74ae0ef09 100644
--- a/platform/android/detect.py
+++ b/platform/android/detect.py
@@ -205,7 +205,6 @@ def configure(env):
 
     env.Append(CPPFLAGS=["-isystem", env["ANDROID_NDK_ROOT"] + "/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/include"])
     env.Append(CPPFLAGS=["-isystem", env["ANDROID_NDK_ROOT"] + "/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++abi/include"])
-    env.Append(CXXFLAGS=["-std=gnu++14"])
 
     # Disable exceptions and rtti on non-tools (template) builds
     if env['tools']: