diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c
index 7409d7860aa6..80d966cfcaa1 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/main.c
@@ -260,6 +260,11 @@ static struct btf_id *add_symbol(struct rb_root *root, char *name, size_t size)
 	return btf_id__add(root, id, false);
 }
 
+/* Older libelf.h and glibc elf.h might not yet define the ELF compression types. */
+#ifndef SHF_COMPRESSED
+#define SHF_COMPRESSED (1 << 11) /* Section with compressed data. */
+#endif
+
 /*
  * The data of compressed section should be aligned to 4
  * (for 32bit) or 8 (for 64 bit) bytes. The binutils ld