diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5f44b78..7f91238 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ endif
 # Ensure that MSVC interprets all source code as UTF-8. Only do this when we're
 # not a subproject, because subprojects are not allowed to call
 # add_global_arguments().
-if not meson.is_subproject() and cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if not meson.is_subproject() and cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   add_global_arguments(
       cc.get_supported_arguments(['/utf-8']), # set the input encoding to utf-8
       language: ['c', 'cpp'])
@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ if building_full
     if cc.has_link_argument(link_arg)
       gstfull_link_args += link_arg
       link_deps += symbol_map
-    elif cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+    elif cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
       warning('FIXME: Provide a def file to publish the public symbols')
     else
       warning('FIXME: Linker does not support the supplied version script (' + symbol_map + '), please disable the "gst-full-version-script" option')
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/ext/dts/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/ext/dts/meson.build
index dc884e0..82bfc53 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/ext/dts/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/ext/dts/meson.build
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if not dca_dep.found()
 endif
 
 no_warn_c_args = []
-if cc.get_id() != 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() != 'msvc'
   # autotools didn't use the libdca pkg-config cflags, and they
   # can point to a non-existing location (/usr/include/dca)
   no_warn_c_args = ['-Wno-missing-include-dirs']
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
index c160778..9b1d692 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/meson.build
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ endif
 
 cdata = configuration_data()
 
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   msvc_args = [
       # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
       # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/d3d11/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/d3d11/meson.build
index 2859ea3..666199d 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/d3d11/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/d3d11/meson.build
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ endif
 
 # MinGW 32bits compiler seems to be complaining about redundant-decls
 # when ComPtr is in use. Let's just disable the warning
-if cc.get_id() != 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() != 'msvc'
   extra_mingw_args = cc.get_supported_arguments([
     '-Wno-redundant-decls',
     # include/directxmath/DirectXMathMatrix.inl:1161:16: error: variable 'aa' set but not used
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/msdk/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/msdk/meson.build
index 79e7200..4aad1d7 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/msdk/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/sys/msdk/meson.build
@@ -243,12 +243,12 @@ if use_onevpl and have_mfx_ver205
 endif
 
 if host_machine.system() == 'windows'
-  if cc.get_id() != 'msvc' and msdk_option.enabled()
+  if cc.get_argument_syntax() != 'msvc' and msdk_option.enabled()
     error('msdk plugin can only be built with MSVC')
   endif
   legacy_stdio_dep = cc.find_library('legacy_stdio_definitions', required: get_option('msdk'))
   msdk_deps = declare_dependency(dependencies: [gstd3d11_dep, legacy_stdio_dep])
-  msdk_deps_found = gstd3d11_dep.found() and legacy_stdio_dep.found() and cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+  msdk_deps_found = gstd3d11_dep.found() and legacy_stdio_dep.found() and cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
 else
   libdl_dep = cc.find_library('dl', required: get_option('msdk'))
   libgudev_dep = dependency('gudev-1.0', required: get_option('msdk'), allow_fallback: true)
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
index 3f6730c..d94f936 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ gst_libraries = []
 
 cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
 
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   msvc_args = [
       # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
       # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
index 95c89b2..52332c7 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-good/meson.build
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ endif
 
 cc = meson.get_compiler('c')
 
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   msvc_args = [
       # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
       # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ cdata.set('HAVE_RTLD_NOLOAD', have_rtld_noload)
 # Here be fixmes.
 # FIXME: check if this is correct
 cdata.set('HAVE_CPU_X86_64', host_machine.cpu() == 'amd64')
-cdata.set('HAVE_GCC_ASM', cc.get_id() != 'msvc')
+cdata.set('HAVE_GCC_ASM', cc.get_argument_syntax() != 'msvc')
 cdata.set_quoted('VERSION', gst_version)
 cdata.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', gst_version)
 cdata.set_quoted('GST_LICENSE', 'LGPL')
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
index 4d68e1d..28e8cb1 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-ugly/meson.build
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if have_cxx
   cxx = meson.get_compiler('cpp')
 endif
 
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   msvc_args = [
       # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
       # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/parse/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/parse/meson.build
index b79a07c..891f907 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/parse/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/gst/parse/meson.build
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ else
 endif
 
 flex_cdata.set('FLEX', flex.full_path())
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   flex_cdata.set('FLEX_ARGS', '--nounistd')
 else
   flex_cdata.set('FLEX_ARGS', '')
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
index ba50005..47cc78a 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ endif
 
 cdata = configuration_data()
 
-if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() == 'msvc'
   msvc_args = [
       # Ignore several spurious warnings for things gstreamer does very commonly
       # If a warning is completely useless and spammy, use '/wdXXXX' to suppress it
@@ -358,9 +358,11 @@ static __uint128_t v2 = 10;
 static __uint128_t u;
 u = v1 / v2;
 }'''
+if cc.get_argument_syntax() != 'msvc'
 if cc.compiles(uint128_t_src, name : '__uint128_t available')
   cdata.set('HAVE_UINT128_T', 1)
 endif
+endif
 
 # All supported platforms have long long now
 cdata.set('HAVE_LONG_LONG', 1)