diff --git a/include/boost/nowide/config.hpp b/include/boost/nowide/config.hpp
index 5201bfd..4e9bae5 100644
--- a/include/boost/nowide/config.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/nowide/config.hpp
@@ -79,7 +79,10 @@
 #define BOOST_NOWIDE_FALLTHROUGH BOOST_FALLTHROUGH
 #endif
 
-#if __cplusplus >= 201103L || (defined(BOOST_MSVC) && BOOST_MSVC >= 1900)
+// MSVC 2015 (1900) has reasonable C++11 support (especially auto-generated move ctors)
+// libstdc++ < 5 does not support movable streams
+#if(__cplusplus >= 201103L || (defined(BOOST_MSVC) && BOOST_MSVC >= 1900)) \
+  && (!defined(BOOST_LIBSTDCXX_VERSION) || BOOST_LIBSTDCXX_VERSION >= 50000)
 #define BOOST_NOWIDE_CXX11 1
 #else
 #define BOOST_NOWIDE_CXX11 0