diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index dd2b0d0d..4da0188d 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)
 
@@ -147,7 +159,7 @@ if (WHISPER_CUBLAS)
 
     if (CUDAToolkit_FOUND)
         message(STATUS "cuBLAS found")
-
+        set(CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc)
         enable_language(CUDA)
 
         set(GGML_CUDA_SOURCES ggml-cuda.cu ggml-cuda.h)