diff --git a/orkaudio/configure.in b/orkaudio/configure.in
index cc62f50..5d8f059 100644
--- a/orkaudio/configure.in
+++ b/orkaudio/configure.in
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ if [cat /etc/issue | grep Ubuntu]; then
 	CXXFLAGS+="-std=c++11"
 fi
 
+if [ grep -i opensuse /etc/os-release ]; then
+	speex_lib=speex
+	CXXFLAGS+="-std=c++11"
+fi
+
 if [grep "release 5" /etc/redhat-release]; then
     CXXFLAGS+="-DCENTOS_5"
 fi
diff --git a/orkaudio/filters/silkcodec/SilkCodec.cpp b/orkaudio/filters/silkcodec/SilkCodec.cpp
index af84303..2f320fb 100644
--- a/orkaudio/filters/silkcodec/SilkCodec.cpp
+++ b/orkaudio/filters/silkcodec/SilkCodec.cpp
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ void SilkCodecDecoder::AudioChunkIn(AudioChunkRef& inputAudioChunk)
 		}
 
 	}
-	else if(abs(outputDetails.m_timestamp - m_lastRtpTs) != (abs(outputDetails.m_sequenceNumber - m_lastRtpSeq) *m_sampleRate8KhzMultiplier*160))
+	// cast timestamps to long so that we can take difference of unsigned ints
+	else if(abs((long)outputDetails.m_timestamp - (long)m_lastRtpTs) !=
+		   (abs((long)outputDetails.m_sequenceNumber - (long)m_lastRtpSeq) *m_sampleRate8KhzMultiplier*160))
 	{
 		// sequence number delta is not coherent with timestamp delta, recalculating m_sampleRate8KhzMultiplier.
 		//Using abs() in the condition to make sure that out of order packets will not trigger this and cause one additional unecessary lost packet
diff --git a/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp b/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
index 41c3369..ccaceec 100644
--- a/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
+++ b/orkbasecxx/ConfigManager.cpp
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #include <xercesc/parsers/XercesDOMParser.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/sax/ErrorHandler.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/sax/SAXParseException.hpp>
-#include <xercesc/dom/DOMWriter.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementation.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementationRegistry.hpp>
 #include "serializers/DomSerializer.h"
diff --git a/orkbasecxx/MultiThreadedServer.cpp b/orkbasecxx/MultiThreadedServer.cpp
index 32561e0..c3cde26 100644
--- a/orkbasecxx/MultiThreadedServer.cpp
+++ b/orkbasecxx/MultiThreadedServer.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 //#include "winsock2.h"
 #endif
 #include <xercesc/parsers/XercesDOMParser.hpp>
-#include <xercesc/dom/DOMWriter.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementation.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementationRegistry.hpp>
 
diff --git a/orkbasecxx/configure.in b/orkbasecxx/configure.in
index 2143f14..cc7c7d8 100644
--- a/orkbasecxx/configure.in
+++ b/orkbasecxx/configure.in
@@ -9,8 +9,12 @@ if [cat /etc/redhat-release | grep "release 6"]; then
     CXXFLAGS+="-DCENTOS_6 -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS"
 fi
 
+if [grep -i "opensuse" /etc/os-release]; then
+    CXXFLAGS+="-std=c++11 -DXERCES_3"
+fi
+
 if [cat /etc/issue | grep "Ubuntu"]; then
-    CXXFLAGS+="-std=c++11"
+    CXXFLAGS+="-std=c++11 -DXERCES_3"
 fi
 
 # Check if gcc supports cpp11 
diff --git a/orkbasecxx/serializers/DomSerializer.cpp b/orkbasecxx/serializers/DomSerializer.cpp
index a91d11d..def2f9d 100644
--- a/orkbasecxx/serializers/DomSerializer.cpp
+++ b/orkbasecxx/serializers/DomSerializer.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMElement.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementation.hpp>
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMImplementationLS.hpp>
+#ifdef XERCES_3
+#include <xercesc/dom/DOMLSSerializer.hpp>
+#else
 #include <xercesc/dom/DOMWriter.hpp>
+#endif
 #include <xercesc/framework/MemBufFormatTarget.hpp>
 
 #include "DomSerializer.h"
@@ -187,6 +191,31 @@ DOMNode* DomSerializer::FindElementByName(DOMNode *node, CStdString name)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+#ifdef XERCES_3
+CStdString DomSerializer::DomNodeToString(DOMNode* node)
+{
+	CStdString output;
+	DOMImplementation *impl          = DOMImplementationRegistry::getDOMImplementation(XStr("LS").unicodeForm());
+	DOMLSSerializer* theSerializer = ((DOMImplementationLS*)impl)->createLSSerializer();
+
+	XMLFormatTarget *myFormTarget;
+	myFormTarget = new MemBufFormatTarget ();
+	DOMLSOutput* theOutput = ((DOMImplementationLS*)impl)->createLSOutput();
+	theOutput->setByteStream(myFormTarget);
+
+	// do the serialization through DOMLSSerializer::write();
+	theSerializer->write(node, theOutput);
+
+	output = (char *)((MemBufFormatTarget*)myFormTarget)->getRawBuffer();
+
+	// clean up
+	theOutput->release();
+	theSerializer->release();
+	delete myFormTarget;
+
+	return output;
+}
+#else
 CStdString DomSerializer::DomNodeToString(DOMNode* node)
 {
 	CStdString output;
@@ -212,3 +241,4 @@ CStdString DomSerializer::DomNodeToString(DOMNode* node)
 
 	return output;
 }
+#endif