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+
+## With R 3.1.0 or later, you can uncomment the following line to tell R to 
+## enable compilation with C++11 (where available)
+##
+## Also, OpenMP support in Armadillo prefers C++11 support. However, for wider
+## availability of the package we do not yet enforce this here.  It is however
+## recommended for client packages to set it.
+##
+## And with R 3.4.0, and RcppArmadillo 0.7.960.*, we turn C++11 on as OpenMP
+## support within Armadillo prefers / requires it
+CXX_STD = CXX11
+
+PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) 
+PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
diff --git a/src/Makevars.win b/src/Makevars.win
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+
+## With R 3.1.0 or later, you can uncomment the following line to tell R to 
+## enable compilation with C++11 (where available)
+##
+## Also, OpenMP support in Armadillo prefers C++11 support. However, for wider
+## availability of the package we do not yet enforce this here.  It is however
+## recommended for client packages to set it.
+##
+## And with R 3.4.0, and RcppArmadillo 0.7.960.*, we turn C++11 on as OpenMP
+## support within Armadillo prefers / requires it
+CXX_STD = CXX11
+
+PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) 
+PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS) $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)