diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4db95f1d..7e8aa3bc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ PARAMS_NEON = -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mvect
 #tnx Jan Szumiec for the Raspberry Pi support
 PARAMS_RASPI = -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp -funsafe-math-optimizations -Wformat=0
 PARAMS_ARM = $(if $(call cpufeature,BCM2708,dummy-text),$(PARAMS_RASPI),$(PARAMS_NEON))
-PARAMS_SIMD = $(if $(call cpufeature,sse,dummy-text),$(PARAMS_SSE),$(PARAMS_ARM))
+PARAMS_SIMD = $(ifeq($(shell arch), "armv7l"),$(PARAMS_ARM),$(PARAMS_SSE))
+CROSS_GCC = $(ifeq($(shell arch), "armv7l"),"gcc","arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc")
 PARAMS_LOOPVECT = -O3 -ffast-math -fdump-tree-vect-details -dumpbase dumpvect
 PARAMS_LIBS = -g -lm -lrt -lfftw3f -DUSE_FFTW -DLIBCSDR_GPL -DUSE_IMA_ADPCM
 PARAMS_SO = -fpic  
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ nmux: nmux.cpp libcsdr.so nmux.h tsmpool.cpp tsmpool.h
 	g++ $(PARAMS_LOOPVECT) $(PARAMS_SIMD) nmux.cpp tsmpool.cpp $(PARAMS_LIBS) -L. -lcsdr -lpthread $(PARAMS_MISC) -o nmux
 arm-cross: clean-vect
 	#note: this doesn't work since having added FFTW
-	arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -fshort-double -ffast-math -dumpbase dumpvect-arm -fdump-tree-vect-details -mfloat-abi=softfp -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon -mvectorize-with-neon-quad -Wno-unused-result -Wformat=0 $(SOURCES) -lm -o ./csdr
+	$(CROSS_GCC) -std=gnu99 -O3 -fshort-double -ffast-math -dumpbase dumpvect-arm -fdump-tree-vect-details -mfloat-abi=softfp -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon -mvectorize-with-neon-quad -Wno-unused-result -Wformat=0 $(SOURCES) -lm -o ./csdr
 clean-vect:
 	rm -f dumpvect*.vect
 clean: clean-vect