diff --git a/.github/workflows/retroarch.yml b/.github/workflows/retroarch.yml
index 6855f9a7db..7a0b1c8af9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/retroarch.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/retroarch.yml
@@ -22,4 +22,14 @@ jobs:
         run: ./configure
       - name: Build
         run: make C89_BUILD=1
-
+  linux-cxx:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Dependencies
+        run: sudo apt-get install build-essential libxkbcommon-dev libx11-xcb-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev libgbm-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit nvidia-cg-dev libavcodec-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libxml2-dev yasm
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Configure
+        run: ./configure
+      - name: Build
+        run: make CXX_BUILD=1