diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2f50c9446922e19a97aa6c790155003d6c835ff0..aa8d7379873cd59a61aef83a9bbfe0e91eefa5cd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -109,8 +109,7 @@ message (STATUS "Installing dependencies from Conan (this may take some time)...
 conan_cmake_run (CONANFILE conanfile.txt
                  BASIC_SETUP CMAKE_TARGETS
                  BUILD missing
-                 BUILD_TYPE "Release"
-                 SETTINGS compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11)
+                 BUILD_TYPE "Release")
 #
 # add cnpy temporarily. As long as SaveBoostHistogram does not save to parquet directly
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