diff --git a/compile_leveldb.sh b/compile_leveldb.sh
index 6b823c3..31bf6ad 100755
--- a/compile_leveldb.sh
+++ b/compile_leveldb.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-(cd leveldb-read-only; make OPT='-fPIC -O2 -DNDEBUG')
+(
+	cd snappy-read-only;
+	./autogen.sh;
+	./configure --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes;
+	make clean;
+	make CXXFLAGS='-g -O2 -fPIC';
+)
+
+(
+	cd leveldb-read-only;
+	make clean;
+	make OPT='-fPIC -O2 -DNDEBUG -DSNAPPY -I../snappy-read-only' SNAPPY_CFLAGS=''
+)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4e3d149..d8322af 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from distutils.core import setup, Extension
 
 extra_compile_args = ['-I./leveldb-read-only/include', '-fPIC', '-pedantic', '-Wall', '-g2', '-D_GNU_SOURCE', '-O2', '-DNDEBUG']
-extra_link_args = ['-L./leveldb-read-only', '-Bstatic', '-lleveldb']
+extra_link_args = ['-L./leveldb-read-only', '-Bstatic', '-lleveldb', '-L./snappy-read-only/.libs/', '-Bstatic', '-lsnappy']
 
 setup(
 	name = 'leveldb',