diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7fe62d4..ec7d606 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
 target/
 a.out*
+include/sysconfig.h
+CMakeFiles
+Makefile
+cmake_install.cmake
+CMakeCache.txt
+core
+src/fyrehose
+.*.sw?
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2728b9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+
+project(fyrehose)
+
+set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)
+
+include(FindPkgConfig)
+include(CheckIncludeFiles)
+include(CheckFunctionExists)
+include(CheckVariableExists)
+include(CheckTypeSize)
+include(CheckLibraryExists)
+include(CheckCSourceCompiles)
+include(CMakeDetermineCCompiler)
+
+# we need the following definitions in order to get some special
+# OS-level features like posix_fadvise() or readahead().
+add_definitions(-DXOPEN_SOURCE=600)
+add_definitions(-DGNU_SOURCE)
+
+# enforce 64bit i/o operations, even on 32bit platforms
+add_definitions(-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGE_FILES)
+
+CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(gtest/gtest.h HAVE_GTEST_GTEST_H)
+CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(sys/sendfile.h HAVE_SYS_SENDFILE_H)
+CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(sendfile HAVE_SENDFILE)
+CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(readahead HAVE_READAHEAD)
+CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(posix_fadvise HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE)
+CHECK_INCLUDE_FILES(sys/epoll.h HAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H)
+CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS(accept4 HAVE_ACCEPT4)
+
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include)
+include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include)
+
+add_definitions(-DHAVE_SYSCONFIG_H)
+configure_file(
+	${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/include/sysconfig.h.cmake
+	${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include/sysconfig.h)
+
+add_custom_target(ctags
+	COMMAND ctags -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/include
+	WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})
+
+add_subdirectory(src)
diff --git a/include/sysconfig.h.cmake b/include/sysconfig.h.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c0c915
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/sysconfig.h.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#cmakedefine HAVE_SYS_EPOLL_H
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e4ea9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+add_definitions(-pthread)
+
+add_executable(fyrehose fyrehose.c conn.c http.c worker.c)
+target_link_libraries(fyrehose pthread)
+install(TARGETS fyrehose RUNTIME DESTINATION sbin)
diff --git a/src/fyrehose.c b/src/fyrehose.c
index 9325963..63726d7 100644
--- a/src/fyrehose.c
+++ b/src/fyrehose.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 int ssock;
 int running = 1;
 worker_t** worker;
-int num_workers;
+int num_workers = 1;
 
 void quit(int fnord) {
   int n;