diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 67b32ec..fde1756 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -5,13 +5,27 @@ require 'rake/clean'
 require 'bundler/gem_tasks'
 require 'rspec/core/rake_task'
 require 'ffi-compiler/compile_task'
+require 'mini_portile2'
+
+WEBP = MiniPortile.new('libwebp', '1.2.4')
+WEBP.files = ['https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.2.4.tar.gz']
+WEBP.configure_options << '--disable-gl' << '--disable-sdl'
 
 desc "compiler tasks"
 namespace "ffi-compiler" do
+  task :libs do
+    old_cflags = ENV['CFLAGS']
+    ENV['CFLAGS'] = (ENV['CFLAGS'].to_s + ' -fPIC').strip
+    WEBP.cook
+    ENV['CFLAGS'] = old_cflags
+    WEBP.activate
+  end
   FFI::Compiler::CompileTask.new('ext/webp_ffi/webp_ffi') do |c|
     c.have_header?('stdio.h', '/usr/local/include')
     c.have_func?('puts')
     c.have_library?('z')
+    c.ldflags << '-L' + File.join(WEBP.path, 'lib')
+    c.cflags << '-I' + File.join(WEBP.path, 'include')
     c.have_header?('decode.h', '/usr/local/include')
     c.have_header?('encode.h', '/usr/local/include')
     c.have_func?('WebPDecoderConfig')
@@ -24,7 +38,7 @@ namespace "ffi-compiler" do
     c.cflags << ENV['C_FLAGS'] if ENV['C_FLAGS']
   end
 end
-task :compile => ["ffi-compiler:default"]
+task :compile => ["ffi-compiler:libs", "ffi-compiler:default"]
 
 desc "run specs"
 task :spec do
diff --git a/ext/webp_ffi/Rakefile b/ext/webp_ffi/Rakefile
index 22e2e98..b386275 100644
--- a/ext/webp_ffi/Rakefile
+++ b/ext/webp_ffi/Rakefile
@@ -1,6 +1,22 @@
 require 'ffi-compiler/compile_task'
+require 'mini_portile2'
+
+WEBP = MiniPortile.new('libwebp', '1.2.4')
+WEBP.files = ['https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/libwebp-1.2.4.tar.gz']
+WEBP.configure_options << '--disable-gl' << '--disable-sdl'
+task :libwebp do
+  old_cflags = ENV['CFLAGS']
+  ENV['CFLAGS'] = (ENV['CFLAGS'].to_s + ' -fPIC').strip
+  WEBP.cook
+  ENV['CFLAGS'] = old_cflags
+  WEBP.activate
+end
+task default: :libwebp
 
 FFI::Compiler::CompileTask.new('webp_ffi') do |c|
+  c.ldflags << '-L' + File.join(WEBP.path, 'lib')
+  c.cflags << '-I' + File.join(WEBP.path, 'include')
+
   c.have_header?('stdio.h', '/usr/local/include')
   c.have_func?('puts')
   c.have_library?('z')
diff --git a/webp-ffi.gemspec b/webp-ffi.gemspec
index ba81650..18532a5 100644
--- a/webp-ffi.gemspec
+++ b/webp-ffi.gemspec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
 
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "ffi", ">= 1.9.0"
   spec.add_runtime_dependency "ffi-compiler", ">= 0.1.2"
+  spec.add_dependency("mini_portile2", "~> 2.8.0")
 
   spec.add_development_dependency "bundler", ">= 1.2"
   spec.add_development_dependency "rake"