diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 503a4735..d2499559 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,46 +1,46 @@
-*.o
-*.a
-.cache/
-.coreml/
-.test/
-.vs/
-.vscode/
-.DS_Store
-
-build/
-build-em/
-build-debug/
-build-release/
-build-static/
-build-cublas/
-build-no-accel/
-build-sanitize-addr/
-build-sanitize-thread/
-
-/main
-/stream
-/command
-/talk
-/talk-llama
-/bench
-/quantize
-
-arm_neon.h
-sync.sh
-libwhisper.a
-libwhisper.so
-compile_commands.json
-
-examples/arm_neon.h
-examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/xcshareddata
-examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/xcuserdata/
-examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcuserdata
-
-extra/bench-gg.txt
-
-models/*.mlmodel
-models/*.mlmodelc
-models/*.mlpackage
-bindings/java/.gradle/
-bindings/java/.idea/
-.idea/
+*.o
+*.a
+.cache/
+.coreml/
+.test/
+.vs/
+.vscode/
+.DS_Store
+
+build/
+build-em/
+build-debug/
+build-release/
+build-static/
+build-cublas/
+build-no-accel/
+build-sanitize-addr/
+build-sanitize-thread/
+
+/main
+/stream
+/command
+/talk
+/talk-llama
+/bench
+/quantize
+
+arm_neon.h
+sync.sh
+libwhisper.a
+libwhisper.so
+compile_commands.json
+
+examples/arm_neon.h
+examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/xcshareddata
+examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/xcuserdata/
+examples/whisper.objc/whisper.objc.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace/xcuserdata
+
+extra/bench-gg.txt
+
+models/*.mlmodel
+models/*.mlmodelc
+models/*.mlpackage
+bindings/java/.gradle/
+bindings/java/.idea/
+.idea/
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 92b5d0c3..60eb0276 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -59,9 +59,11 @@ if (APPLE)
     option(WHISPER_COREML                "whisper: enable Core ML framework"     OFF)
     option(WHISPER_COREML_ALLOW_FALLBACK "whisper: allow non-CoreML fallback"    OFF)
 else()
-    option(WHISPER_OPENBLAS              "whisper: support for OpenBLAS" OFF)
-    option(WHISPER_CUBLAS                "whisper: support for cuBLAS"   OFF)
-    option(WHISPER_CLBLAST               "whisper: use CLBlast"          OFF)
+    option(WHISPER_BLAS                  "whisper: use BLAS libraries"  OFF)
+    option(WHISPER_BLAS_VENDOR           "whisper: BLAS library vendor" Generic)
+    option(WHISPER_OPENBLAS              "whisper: prefer OpenBLAS"     OFF)
+    option(WHISPER_CUBLAS                "whisper: support for cuBLAS"  OFF)
+    option(WHISPER_CLBLAST               "whisper: use CLBlast"         OFF)
 endif()
 
 option(WHISPER_PERF "whisper: enable perf timings" OFF)
@@ -127,19 +129,29 @@ if (APPLE)
 endif()
 
 if (WHISPER_OPENBLAS)
-    find_library(OPENBLAS_LIB
-        NAMES openblas libopenblas
-        )
-    if (OPENBLAS_LIB)
-        message(STATUS "OpenBLAS found")
-
-        set(WHISPER_EXTRA_LIBS  ${WHISPER_EXTRA_LIBS}  ${OPENBLAS_LIB})
-        set(WHISPER_EXTRA_FLAGS ${WHISPER_EXTRA_FLAGS} -DGGML_USE_OPENBLAS)
-    else()
-        message(WARNING "OpenBLAS not found")
-    endif()
+    set(WHISPER_BLAS_VENDOR "OpenBLAS")
+    set(WHISPER_BLAS ON)
 endif()
 
+if (WHISPER_BLAS)
+    set(BLA_STATIC 1)
+    set(BLA_VENDOR ${WHISPER_BLAS_VENDOR})
+#    set(BLA_PREFER_PKGCONFIG 1)
+    set(BLA_SIZEOF_INTEGER 8)
+    find_package(BLAS)
+
+    if(BLAS_FOUND)
+        message(STATUS "BLAS compatible library found")
+        message(STATUS "Libraries ${BLAS_LIBRARIES}")
+        set(WHISPER_EXTRA_FLAGS ${WHISPER_EXTRA_FLAGS} -DGGML_USE_OPENBLAS)
+
+        include_directories(${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+        set(WHISPER_EXTRA_LIBS ${WHISPER_EXTRA_LIBS} ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})
+    else()
+        message(WARNING "BLAS library was not found")
+    endif()
+endif ()
+
 if (WHISPER_CUBLAS)
     cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.17)