The Intel® Media SDK Samples showcase the broad range of features in Intel® Media SDK, which must be installed first.
For Windows client use Intel® Media SDK (https://software.intel.com/en-us/media-sdk). For Linux and Windows Server install Intel® Media Server Studio (https://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-media-server-studio). For detailed information about Media SDK Samples please refer to the respective sample guides in respective folders.

git clone https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/samples.git
cd samples/samples
perl build.pl --cmake=intel64.make.debug --mfx-home=/path/to/mediasdk/headers --clean
make -j8 -C __cmake/intel64.make.debug

You can setup path to MSDK header thourgh environment variable (--mfx-home is not required in this case):

export MFX_HOME=/path/to/mediasdk/headers
perl build.pl --cmake=intel64.make.debug

MFX_HOME for installed MSS is /opt/intel/mediasdk.