diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+language: cpp
+dist: trusty
+sudo: required
+install: travis/install_extra_deps.sh
+script: travis/compile_all.sh
+env:
+ - STATIC_BUILD=true BUILD_TARGET=native
+ - STATIC_BUILD=true BUILD_TARGET=win32
+ - STATIC_BUILD=false BUILD_TARGET=native
+ - STATIC_BUILD=false BUILD_TARGET=win32
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Build status : [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/kiwix/kiwix-build.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/kiwix/kiwix-build)
+
+
 Kiwix is an offline reader for Web content. It's especially thought to
 make Wikipedia available offline.  This is done by reading the content
 of the project stored in a file format ZIM, a high compressed open
diff --git a/travis/compile_all.sh b/travis/compile_all.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+OPTION=""
+if [ "${STATIC_BUILD}" = "true" ]; then
+    OPTION="--build-static"
+fi
+
+./kiwix-build.py --build-target=${BUILD_TARGET} ${OPTION}
diff --git a/travis/install_extra_deps.sh b/travis/install_extra_deps.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+orig_dir=$(pwd)
+
+sudo apt-get update -qq
+sudo apt-get install -qq uuid-dev libicu-dev libctpp2-dev automake libtool python3-pip zlib1g-dev lzma-dev libbz2-dev cmake
+pip3 install meson
+
+# ninja
+git clone git://github.com/ninja-build/ninja.git
+cd ninja
+git checkout release
+./configure.py --bootstrap
+sudo cp ninja /bin
+
+cd $orig_dir
+