diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cac6ebc..f81a919 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,6 +11,18 @@ Then simply run
 ```
 pip install .
 ```
+
+## Using non default Compilers
+
+Usually, Python uses the compiler provided by `cc`. For the initialisation of the subsystem, the compiler is determined by calling Score-P. However, there is no way I am aware of to force the compiler during installation, expect by specifying the `CC` environment variable.
+
+So if you are planning to use non-default Compiler like Intel, please install the bindings using:
+
+```
+CC=`scorep-config --cc` CXX=`scorep-config --cxx` pip install . 
+```
+
+
 # Use
 
 To trace the full script you need to run
diff --git a/scorep/helper.py b/scorep/helper.py
index 2306abc..c5264b9 100644
--- a/scorep/helper.py
+++ b/scorep/helper.py
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ def generate_compile_deps(config=[]):
     (_, libs, _) = call(scorep_config + ["--libs"])
     (_, mgmt_libs, _) = call(scorep_config + ["--mgmt-libs"])
     (_, cflags, _) = call(scorep_config + ["--cflags"])
+    (_, cc, _) = call(scorep_config + ["--cc"])
+    (_, cxx, _) = call(scorep_config + ["--cxx"])
 
     libs = " " + libs + " " + mgmt_libs
     ldflags = " " + ldflags
@@ -104,4 +106,4 @@ def remove_space1(x): return x[1:]
 
     macro = list(map(lambda x: tuple([x, 1]), macro))
 
-    return (include, lib, lib_dir, macro, linker_flags)
+    return (include, lib, lib_dir, macro, linker_flags, cc, cxx)
diff --git a/scorep/subsystem.py b/scorep/subsystem.py
index f93d6d9..6e15fda 100644
--- a/scorep/subsystem.py
+++ b/scorep/subsystem.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def generate(scorep_config, keep_files=False):
     """
 
     (include, lib, lib_dir, macro,
-     linker_flags_tmp) = scorep.helper.generate_compile_deps(scorep_config)
+     linker_flags_tmp, cc, cxx) = scorep.helper.generate_compile_deps(scorep_config)
     scorep_adapter_init = generate_subsystem_code(scorep_config)
 
     # add -Wl,-no-as-needed to tell the compiler that we really want to link these. Actually this sould be default.
@@ -67,10 +67,13 @@ def generate(scorep_config, keep_files=False):
 
     subsystem_lib_name = gen_subsystem_lib_name()
 
-    cc = distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler()
-    compiled_subsystem = cc.compile(
+    compiler = distutils.ccompiler.new_compiler()
+    
+    # distutils UnixCCompiler as of python 3.7 simply doens not care about compiler, thats why we need to set compiler_so.
+    compiler.set_executables(compiler=cc, compiler_cxx=cxx, compiler_so=cc)    
+    compiled_subsystem = compiler.compile(
         [temp_dir + "/scorep_init.c"], output_dir=temp_dir)
-    cc.link(
+    compiler.link(
         "scorep_init_mpi",
         objects=compiled_subsystem,
         output_filename=subsystem_lib_name,
@@ -93,3 +96,4 @@ def clean_up(keep_files=True):
     else:
         if ("SCOREP_PYTHON_BINDINGS_TEMP_DIR" in os.environ) and (os.environ["SCOREP_PYTHON_BINDINGS_TEMP_DIR"] != ""):
             shutil.rmtree(os.environ["SCOREP_PYTHON_BINDINGS_TEMP_DIR"])
+
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c682008..86888a4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 import scorep.helper
 
-(include, lib, lib_dir, macro, linker_flags) = scorep.helper.generate_compile_deps()
+(include, lib, lib_dir, macro, linker_flags, cc, cxx) = scorep.helper.generate_compile_deps()
 
 
 cmodules = []
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name='scorep',
-    version='1.0',
+    version='1.2',
     description='This is a scorep tracing package for python',
     author='Andreas Gocht',
     author_email='andreas.gocht@tu-dresden.de',