Thank you pushpa, My rtsp-server header files were stored into /usr/local.include/gstreamer-0.10/gst/rtsp-server. So I included that path in my gcc call: gcc -I /usr/local/include/gstreamer-0.10/ test-video2.c -o test-video2 -Wall $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10) The output of that was not a compiled file, instead it was: /tmp/ccVmTq7u.o: In function `timeout': main.c:(.text+0x17): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_server_get_session_pool' main.c:(.text+0x27): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_session_pool_cleanup' /tmp/ccVmTq7u.o: In function `main': main.c:(.text+0x74): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_server_new' main.c:(.text+0x84): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_server_get_media_mapping' main.c:(.text+0x8d): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_media_factory_new' main.c:(.text+0xa2): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_media_factory_set_launch' main.c:(.text+0xb7): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_media_mapping_add_factory' main.c:(.text+0xd4): undefined reference to `gst_rtsp_server_attach' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status So I did something wrong somewhere. I just don't know where. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:53 PM, pushpa <<a href="mailto:pushpalatha.sg@mistralsolutions.com" target="_blank">pushpalatha.sg@mistralsolutions.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Try to include the header file path of your rtsp server for compilation and also link the rtsp server library For example: "gcc -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamer-0.10` " gcc -o"rtsp" ./main.o -lgstrtspserver-0.10 -lgstreamer-0.10 Regards, Pushpa -- View this message in context: <a href="http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/Can-t-compile-code-using-gst-rtsp-server-tp4655577p4655578.html" target="_blank">http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/Can-t-compile-code-using-gst-rtsp-server-tp4655577p4655578.html</a> Sent from the GStreamer-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- <div>W.A. Garrett Weaver </div> <div><a href="mailto:weaverg@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">weaverg@email.arizona.edu</a></div>