diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e92347b..bab75cb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -65,10 +65,11 @@ script:
          octave-cli --eval "addpath(pwd);cd test;run_zmat_test";
       fi
     - ${MAKE} -C src lib
+    - ${MAKE} -C example/c static
+
     - ${MAKE} -C src dll
     - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "windows" ]; then
-         ls -lt lib;
-         cp lib/*.dll example/c;
+         cp lib/* example/c;
       fi
     - ${MAKE} -C example/c all
     - if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]; then
diff --git a/example/c/Makefile b/example/c/Makefile
index 9706b87..bd3834b 100644
--- a/example/c/Makefile
+++ b/example/c/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
+LIBTYPE  ?= dynamic
+
 all:
-	$(CC) -g -Wall -pedantic testzmat.c -o testzmat -I../../include -L../../lib -lzmat -lz -lpthread
+	$(CC) -g -Wall -pedantic testzmat.c -o testzmat -I../../include -L../../lib -Wl,-B$(LIBTYPE) -lzmat -Wl,-Bdynamic -lz -lpthread
 clean:
 	-rm -f testzmat
diff --git a/example/c/testzmat.c b/example/c/testzmat.c
index 789f1f5..42337d7 100644
--- a/example/c/testzmat.c
+++ b/example/c/testzmat.c
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 /**
-  * if only zlib/gzip/base64 is used, one only need to add -I/path/to/zmatlib.h
-  * if lzma/lzip is used, one must add -I/path/to/src/easylzma/
-  * if lz4/lz4hc is used, one must add -I/path/to/src/lz4
+  * to compile, one should add -I/path/to/zmatlib.h to the compilation command and
+  * -L/path/to/libzmat.so(or .a) -lzmat -lz -lpthread to the linking command
   */
 
 #include "zmatlib.h"
diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index f75067f..b3d6f54 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),lib)
    ARFLAGS    :=cr
    BINARY     :=libzmat.a
    AROUTPUT   :=
-   LINKOPT    :=
+   LINKOPT    :=blosc2/lib/libblosc2.a blosc2/internal-complibs/zstd-1.5.2/libzstd.a
    OUTPUT_DIR :=$(LIBDIR)
    ifeq ($(findstring Darwin,$(PLATFORM)), Darwin)
       OUTPUTFLAG :=