diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index bcd2158..ee155ba 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ include (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake)
 include_directories (${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/include)
 link_directories (${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
 
-set (STATIC_BUILD true)
+option (STATIC_BUILD "Build Planet Blupi statically" ON)
 
 # It's an hack in order to be able to link statically planetblupi on darwin.
 if (APPLE)