diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4261c06..6d6e537 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2166,6 +2166,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rstest",
  "serial_test",
  "tempfile",
+ "zstd-sys",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4962,4 +4963,5 @@ checksum = "fc49afa5c8d634e75761feda8c592051e7eeb4683ba827211eb0d731d3402ea8"
 dependencies = [
  "cc",
  "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e214da1..b78919a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,6 +69,9 @@ hamcrest2 = "0.3.0"
 rstest = "0.12.0"
 itertools = "0.10.3"
 
+# Specify that the indirect dependency ztsd-sys should pick up the system zstd C library
+zstd-sys = { version = "1", features = [ "pkg-config" ] }
+
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.build-dependencies]
 embed-resource = "1"