diff --git a/emscripten/buildToolkit b/emscripten/buildToolkit
index dbfa85f33a6..5ebce41d94f 100755
--- a/emscripten/buildToolkit
+++ b/emscripten/buildToolkit
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Options:
 EOT
 }
 
-chomp (my $EMCC = `which emcc`);
+chomp (my $EMCC = `which em++`);
 chomp (my $EMCMAKE = `which emcmake`);
 chomp (my $EMMAKE = `which emmake`);
 die "ERROR: emscripten compiler (emcc) not found.\n" unless $EMCC;