diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 0878b81..0d358d2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
 set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/bin)
 
 find_package(Bluelib COMPONENTS Core Object Io Term Cmd REQUIRED)
+find_package(ZSTD REQUIRED)
 
 add_subdirectory(ropkg)
 add_subdirectory(ropam)
diff --git a/cmake/FindZSTD.cmake b/cmake/FindZSTD.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d821e46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/FindZSTD.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# taken from: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/master/CMake/FindZstd.cmake
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# - Try to find Facebook zstd library
+# This will define
+# ZSTD_FOUND
+# ZSTD_INCLUDE_DIR
+# ZSTD_LIBRARY
+#
+
+find_path(ZSTD_INCLUDE_DIR NAMES zstd.h)
+find_library(ZSTD_LIBRARY NAMES zstd)
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(
+    ZSTD DEFAULT_MSG
+    ZSTD_LIBRARY ZSTD_INCLUDE_DIR
+)
+
+mark_as_advanced(ZSTD_INCLUDE_DIR ZSTD_LIBRARY)