Index: ps/trunk/build/premake/premake5.lua
===================================================================
--- ps/trunk/build/premake/premake5.lua
+++ ps/trunk/build/premake/premake5.lua
@@ -199,6 +199,13 @@
 	-- being used as a DLL (which is currently not the case in 0ad)
 	defines { "LIB_STATIC_LINK" }
 
+	-- Enable C++14 standard.
+	filter "action:vs*"
+		buildoptions { "/std:c++14" }
+	filter "action:not vs*"
+		buildoptions { "-std=c++14" }
+	filter {}
+
 	-- various platform-specific build flags
 	if os.istarget("windows") then
 
@@ -291,11 +298,6 @@
 				end
 			end
 
-			buildoptions {
-				-- Enable C++11 standard.
-				"-std=c++0x"
-			}
-
 			if arch == "arm" then
 				-- disable warnings about va_list ABI change and use
 				-- compile-time flags for futher configuration.
@@ -311,10 +313,10 @@
 				links { "gcov" }
 			end
 
-			-- We don't want to require SSE2 everywhere yet, but OS X headers do
-			-- require it (and Intel Macs always have it) so enable it here
+			-- MacOS always provides SSE3 so enable that.
+			-- TODO: after <10.12 support is dropped, we can assume SSE4.1 is present.
 			if os.istarget("macosx") then
-				buildoptions { "-msse2" }
+				buildoptions { "-msse3" }
 			end
 
 			-- Check if SDK path should be used
@@ -336,8 +338,7 @@
 				defines { "BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER=" .. _OPTIONS["macosx-bundle"] }
 			end
 
-			-- On OS X, force using libc++ since it has better C++11 support,
-			-- now required by the game
+			-- Only libc++ is supported on MacOS
 			if os.istarget("macosx") then
 				buildoptions { "-stdlib=libc++" }
 				linkoptions { "-stdlib=libc++" }
Index: ps/trunk/libraries/osx/build-osx-libs.sh
===================================================================
--- ps/trunk/libraries/osx/build-osx-libs.sh
+++ ps/trunk/libraries/osx/build-osx-libs.sh
@@ -61,13 +61,6 @@
 # * OpenGL
 # --------------------------------------------------------------
 
-# Force build architecture, as sometimes environment is broken.
-# For a universal fat binary, the approach would be to build every
-# dependency with both archs and combine them with lipo, then do the
-# same thing with the game itself.
-# Choices are "x86_64" or  "i386" (ppc and ppc64 not supported)
-ARCH=${ARCH:="x86_64"}
-
 # Define compiler as "clang", this is all Mavericks supports.
 # gcc symlinks may still exist, but they are simply clang with
 # slightly different config, which confuses build scripts.
@@ -94,17 +87,14 @@
   # and CRT version, and use it to set the macosx_version_min linker flag
   LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -mmacosx-version-min=$MIN_OSX_VERSION"
 fi
-# Force using libc++ since it has better C++11 support required by the game
-# but pre-Mavericks still use libstdc++ by default
-# Also enable c++0x for consistency with the game build
-C_FLAGS="$C_FLAGS -arch $ARCH -fvisibility=hidden"
-LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -arch $ARCH -stdlib=libc++"
 
-CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $C_FLAGS"
-CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $C_FLAGS -stdlib=libc++ -std=c++0x"
+CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $C_FLAGS -fvisibility=hidden"
+CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $C_FLAGS -stdlib=libc++ -std=c++14 -msse3"
 OBJCFLAGS="$OBJCFLAGS $C_FLAGS"
 OBJCXXFLAGS="$OBJCXXFLAGS $C_FLAGS"
 
+LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -stdlib=libc++"
+
 JOBS=${JOBS:="-j2"}
 
 set -e
@@ -431,7 +421,6 @@
 
   CONF_OPTS="--prefix=$INSTALL_DIR
     --disable-shared
-    --enable-macosx_arch=$ARCH
     --enable-unicode
     --with-cocoa
     --with-opengl