Thanks David, I have installed zlib and bzip2...and its headers also. The error remains. Cannot compile my code!! I would appreciate any one's views. -- View this message in context: http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/bzip2-and-zlib-headers-tp4659284p4659290.html Sent from the GStreamer-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.