libtheora has libogg as a dependency, and for examples, also libvorbis, therefore you need to have libogg and libvorbis compiled beforehand. Lets say you have libogg, libvorbis and libtheora in the same directory: libogg-1.1.4 libvorbis-1.2.2 libtheora-1.0 Because there is no automatic library detection you have to, either: 1. Rename libogg-1.1.4 to libogg, and libvorbis-1.2.2 to libvorbis. 2. Open libogg.vsprops with a text editor (even notepad.exe will suffice) and see if LIBOGG_VERSION is set to the correct version, in this case "1.1.4". The same procedure should be done for libvorbis.vsprops and check LIBVORBIS_VERSION for the correct version, in this case "1.2.2".