diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9472d204d..d8268f5da1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed ESP32 socket driver holding the global socket-list lock across blocking TCP connects, leaking the port on connect failure, losing concurrent `accept` waiters, leaking `netbuf` on receive error paths, and a recycled-`netconn` race between socket close and the event handler
 - Fixed generic_unix TCP server sockets performing an abortive close that could truncate replies awaiting ack
 - Fixed a JIT crash (`EXC_BAD_ACCESS`/SIGBUS) on Apple Silicon
+- Fixed `term_from_resource` failing to compile from C++
 
 ## [0.7.0-alpha.1] - 2026-04-06
 
diff --git a/src/libAtomVM/term.h b/src/libAtomVM/term.h
index 1175d7f9dc..40e943b415 100644
--- a/src/libAtomVM/term.h
+++ b/src/libAtomVM/term.h
@@ -3082,7 +3082,7 @@ static inline term term_from_resource(void *resource, Heap *heap)
     boxed_value[0] = TERM_BOXED_REFERENCE_RESOURCE_HEADER;
     boxed_value[1] = (term) refc;
     // Add the resource to the mso list
-    refc_binary_add_refcount(refc, 1);
+    refc_binary_increment_refcount(refc);
     term ret = ((term) boxed_value) | TERM_PRIMARY_BOXED;
     heap->root->mso_list = term_list_init_prepend(boxed_value + REFERENCE_RESOURCE_CONS_OFFSET, ret, heap->root->mso_list);
     return ret;