diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 368eccb..322894e 100755
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ endif()
 
 if( UNIX AND NOT APPLE )
   find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
-  pkg_check_modules(DNSSD REQUIRED avahi-compat-libdns_sd)
   pkg_check_modules(PLIST libplist>=2.0)
   if(NOT PLIST_FOUND)
     pkg_check_modules(PLIST REQUIRED libplist-2.0)
@@ -58,7 +57,6 @@ target_link_libraries( uxplay
 if ( UNIX AND NOT APPLE )
   target_link_directories( uxplay PUBLIC
                            ${GST_LIBRARY_DIRS}
-                           ${DNSSD_LIBRARY_DIRS}
                            ${PLIST_LIBRARY_DIRS}
                          )
   target_link_libraries( uxplay ${PLIST_LIBRARIES} )
diff --git a/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index b6f97a0..36e2f05 100755
--- a/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -74,9 +74,29 @@ elseif( APPLE )
 			     )
 endif()
 
-#dns_sd
+#dns_sd (we only need to find the  dns_sd.h include file for non_Apple systems)
 if ( UNIX AND NOT APPLE )
-  target_include_directories( airplay PUBLIC ${DNSSD_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
-  link_directories( ${DNSSD_LIBRARY_DIRS} )
-  target_link_libraries( airplay ${DNSSD_LIBRARIES})
+  pkg_check_modules(AVAHI_COMPAT avahi-compat-libdns_sd)
+  if( AVAHI_COMPAT_FOUND )
+        message( STATUS "AVAHI_COMPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS " ${AVAHI_COMPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
+        target_include_directories( airplay PUBLIC ${AVAHI_COMPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
+        message( STATUS "AVAHI_COMPAT_LIBRARIES " ${AVAHI_COMPAT_LIBRARIES} )
+	target_link_libraries( airplay ${AVAHI_COMPAT_LIBRARIES} )
+  else()  # dns_sd can be provided by mdnsResponder instead of Avahi.
+      find_library(DNS_SD dns_sd )
+      if( NOT DNS_SD )
+          message( FATAL_ERROR "libdns_sd not found; suggestion: install avahi-compat-libdns-sd ")
+      else()
+         message( STATUS "libdns_sd found at " ${DNS_SD} )
+      endif()
+      set ( INCLUDE_PATHS " /usr/include/ /usr/include/* /usr/local/include/ /usr/local/include/* " )
+      find_file( DNS_SD_H dns_sd.h PATHS ${INCLUDE_PATHS} )
+      if( NOT DNS_SD_H )
+          message( FATAL_ERROR " dns_sd.h not found in PATHS " ${INCLUDE_PATHS})
+      endif()
+      string( REPLACE "dns_sd.h" "" DNSSD_INCLUDE_DIR  ${DNS_SD_H} )
+      message( STATUS "found dns_sd.h in " ${DNSSD_INCLUDE_DIR} )
+      target_include_directories( airplay PRIVATE ${DNSSD_INCLUDE_DIR} )
+      target_link_libraries( airplay dns_sd )
+  endif()
 endif()