diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index cb15a02b..d74a484a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ project(dwarfs)
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13.4)
 
 option(WITH_TESTS "build with tests" OFF)
+option(WITH_LUA "build with Lua scripting support" OFF)
 
 set(default_build_type "Release")
 
@@ -97,6 +98,7 @@ list(
   src/dwarfs/inode_manager.cpp
   src/dwarfs/inode_reader.cpp
   src/dwarfs/logger.cpp
+  src/dwarfs/lua_script.cpp
   src/dwarfs/metadata.cpp
   src/dwarfs/metadata_writer.cpp
   src/dwarfs/mmap.cpp
@@ -107,6 +109,10 @@ list(
   src/dwarfs/similarity.cpp
   src/dwarfs/util.cpp)
 
+if(WITH_LUA)
+  list(APPEND LIBDWARFS_SRC src/dwarfs/lua_script.cpp)
+endif()
+
 add_library(dwarfs ${LIBDWARFS_SRC})
 
 add_executable(mkdwarfs src/mkdwarfs.cpp)
@@ -139,7 +145,8 @@ foreach(tgt dwarfs ${BINARY_TARGETS})
     PRIVATE DWARFS_VERSION=\"${DWARFS_VERSION}\"
             $<$<BOOL:${LIBLZ4_FOUND}>:DWARFS_HAVE_LIBLZ4>
             $<$<BOOL:${LIBLZMA_FOUND}>:DWARFS_HAVE_LIBLZMA>
-            $<$<BOOL:${LIBZSTD_FOUND}>:DWARFS_HAVE_LIBZSTD>)
+            $<$<BOOL:${LIBZSTD_FOUND}>:DWARFS_HAVE_LIBZSTD>
+            $<$<BOOL:${WITH_LUA}>:DWARFS_HAVE_LUA>)
 
   target_compile_options(${tgt} PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -pedantic)
 
@@ -160,6 +167,10 @@ foreach(tgt ${BINARY_TARGETS})
     PkgConfig::LIBLZ4
     PkgConfig::LIBLZMA
     PkgConfig::LIBZSTD)
+
+  if(WITH_LUA)
+    target_link_libraries(${tgt} luabind lua)
+  endif()
 endforeach()
 
 target_link_libraries(dwarfs-bin PkgConfig::FUSE3)