--- win/vulture/GNUmakefile.orig
+++ win/vulture/GNUmakefile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	ifndef SDL_CONFIG
 		OS := $(shell uname -s)
 		ifeq ($(OS),FreeBSD)
-			SDL_CONFIG := sdl11-config
+			SDL_CONFIG := sdl-config
 		else
 			SDL_CONFIG := sdl-config
 		endif
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 	SDL_CFLAGS = $(shell $(SDL_CONFIG) --cflags)
 endif
 
-CFLAGS := $(BASECFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) -DUSE_SDL_SYSCALLS -g3 -Wall
+CFLAGS := $(BASECFLAGS) $(SDL_CFLAGS) -DUSE_SDL_SYSCALLS -Wall
 
 ifeq ($(BUILD), nethack)
 	BUILDDIR := build_nethack
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 
 $(OUTPUT_OBJ): $(VOBJ)
 	@echo combining objects to $@
-	@$(CXX) -nostdlib -Xlinker -r $(VOBJ) -lstdc++ -o $(OUTPUT_OBJ)
+	@$(CXX) -nostdlib -Xlinker -r $(VOBJ) -o $(OUTPUT_OBJ)
 
 $(BUILDDIR)/vulture_tileconfig.parser.cpp $(BUILDDIR)/vulture_tileconfig.parser.h: vulture_tileconfig.parser.y
 	@echo generating parser
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
 $(BUILDDIR)/vulture_tileconfig.lexer.cpp: vulture_tileconfig.lexer.l
 	@echo generating lexer
 	@mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR)/winclass
-	@flex -o $@ $<
+	@$(FLEX) -o $@ $<
 
 # including the dependency files will cause them to be built if they don't exist
 -include $(VDEPS)