diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 487543dd07..32cc72e9c6 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -129,6 +129,32 @@ else
     endif
 endif
 
+warning_flags = [
+  '-Wmissing-declarations',
+  '-Wmissing-prototypes',
+  '-Wold-style-definition',
+  '-Wredundant-decls',
+  '-Wundef',
+  '-Wwrite-strings',
+  '-Wformat',
+  '-Wformat-nonliteral',
+  '-Wformat-security',
+  '-Winit-self',
+  '-Wmissing-include-dirs',
+  '-Waddress',
+  '-Wno-multichar',
+  '-Waggregate-return',
+  '-Wdeclaration-after-statement',
+  '-Wvla',
+  '-Wpointer-arith',
+]
+
+foreach extra_arg : warning_flags
+  if cc.has_argument (extra_arg)
+    add_project_arguments([extra_arg], language: 'c')
+  endif
+endforeach
+
 configinc = include_directories('.')
 plugins_install_dir = '@0@/gstreamer-1.0'.format(get_option('libdir'))
 subdir('ext/libav/')