diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 202cda0..bc864cc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -872,6 +872,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokei",
  "toml",
  "yaml-rust",
+ "zstd-sys",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1678,4 +1679,5 @@ checksum = "2141bed8922b427761470e6bbfeff255da94fa20b0bbeab0d9297fcaf71e3aa7"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
  "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8e0b5ff..48959b4 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ libc = "0.2.112"
 [dev-dependencies]
 more-asserts = "0.2"
 paste = "1.0.6"
+# Specify that the indirect dependency ztsd-sys should pick up the system zstd C library
+zstd-sys = { version = "1", features = [ "pkg-config" ] }
 
 [features]
 fail-on-deprecated = []