diff --git a/projects/clr/opencl/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/clr/opencl/CMakeLists.txt
index 25b7e031f6..94f84ad75c 100644
--- a/projects/clr/opencl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/clr/opencl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ endif()
 
 project(opencl)
 
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
+
 #example command:
 # cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/path/to/ROCclr/build/or/install ..
 
diff --git a/projects/clr/opencl/amdocl/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/clr/opencl/amdocl/CMakeLists.txt
index f860fd508b..4f88cfe6bd 100644
--- a/projects/clr/opencl/amdocl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/clr/opencl/amdocl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
-set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
 set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
 
 # Some linker flags, -Wl,--unresolved-symbols=report-all being one of them, requires -shared-libasan if using -fsanitize=address.
diff --git a/projects/clr/opencl/tools/clinfo/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/clr/opencl/tools/clinfo/CMakeLists.txt
index f7c953fd3b..ebc1faf084 100644
--- a/projects/clr/opencl/tools/clinfo/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/clr/opencl/tools/clinfo/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 11)
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
-set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
-
 
 set (CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
 
diff --git a/projects/clr/opencl/tools/cltrace/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/clr/opencl/tools/cltrace/CMakeLists.txt
index 3be17bba16..5ce7e9ec02 100644
--- a/projects/clr/opencl/tools/cltrace/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/clr/opencl/tools/cltrace/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -std=c++11")
-
 if(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE MATCHES "^Debug$")
   add_definitions(-DDEBUG)
 endif()