diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3dd5952
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
+project(DTO VERSION 1.0 LANGUAGES C)
+
+include(GNUInstallDirs)
+set(CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR lib)
+
+
+# Build the shared library
+add_library(dto SHARED dto.c)
+add_library(DTO::dto ALIAS dto)
+target_include_directories(dto
+    PUBLIC
+        $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}>
+        $<INSTALL_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}>)
+
+# set gnu source everywhere
+add_compile_definitions(_GNU_SOURCE)
+
+# Add the -DDTO_STATS_SUPPORT preprocessor definition
+target_compile_definitions(dto PRIVATE DTO_STATS_SUPPORT)
+
+# Link libraries
+target_link_libraries(dto accel-config dl numa)
+
+include(CheckCCompilerFlag)
+check_c_compiler_flag("-mwaitpkg" HAS_WAITPKG)
+if (HAS_WAITPKG)
+  target_compile_options(dto PRIVATE -mwaitpkg -march=native)
+endif()
+
+# Build dto-test and dto-test-wodto
+add_executable(dto-test dto-test.c)
+target_link_libraries(dto-test PRIVATE DTO::dto pthread)
+
+add_executable(dto-test-wodto dto-test.c)
+target_link_libraries(dto-test-wodto PRIVATE pthread)
+
+# Install and export the library
+install(TARGETS dto
+        EXPORT DTOTargets
+        RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR}
+        LIBRARY DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}
+        ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR})
+
+install(FILES dto.h DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR})
+
+install(EXPORT DTOTargets
+        FILE DTOTargets.cmake
+        NAMESPACE DTO::
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/DTO)
+
+include(CMakePackageConfigHelpers)
+write_basic_package_version_file(
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/DTOConfigVersion.cmake"
+    VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION}
+    COMPATIBILITY AnyNewerVersion)
+
+configure_package_config_file(
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/DTOConfig.cmake.in"
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/DTOConfig.cmake"
+    INSTALL_DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/DTO)
+
+install(FILES
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/DTOConfig.cmake"
+    "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/DTOConfigVersion.cmake"
+    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/cmake/DTO)
+
diff --git a/DTOConfig.cmake.in b/DTOConfig.cmake.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56e57bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/DTOConfig.cmake.in
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+@PACKAGE_INIT@
+
+include("${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/DTOTargets.cmake")
+
+check_required_components(DTO)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 95af413..0000000
--- a/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2023 Intel Corporation
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-
-all: libdto dto-test-wodto
-
-DML_LIB_CXX=-D_GNU_SOURCE
-
-libdto: dto.c
-	gcc -shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname,libdto.so dto.c $(DML_LIB_CXX) -DDTO_STATS_SUPPORT -o libdto.so.1.0 -laccel-config -ldl -lnuma -mwaitpkg
-
-libdto_nostats: dto.c
-	gcc -shared -fPIC -Wl,-soname,libdto.so dto.c $(DML_LIB_CXX) -o libdto.so.1.0 -laccel-config -ldl -lnuma -mwaitpkg
-
-install:
-	cp libdto.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/
-	ln -sf /usr/lib64/libdto.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/libdto.so.1
-	ln -sf /usr/lib64/libdto.so.1.0 /usr/lib64/libdto.so
-
-install-local:
-	ln -sf ./libdto.so.1.0 ./libdto.so.1
-	ln -sf ./libdto.so.1.0 ./libdto.so
-
-dto-test: dto-test.c
-	gcc -g dto-test.c $(DML_LIB_CXX) -o dto-test -ldto -lpthread
-
-dto-test-wodto: dto-test.c
-	gcc -g dto-test.c $(DML_LIB_CXX) -o dto-test-wodto -lpthread
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf *.o *.so dto-test
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a746e2..b31654d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -102,7 +102,10 @@ On Fedora/CentOS/Rhel: kernel-headers, accel-config-devel, libuuid-devel, libnum
 On Ubuntu/Debian: linux-libc-dev, libaccel-config-dev, uuid-dev, libnuma-dev
 
 ```bash
-make libdto
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make
 make install
 ```
 
diff --git a/dto.h b/dto.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..78e1890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dto.h
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+
+#ifndef DTO_H
+#define DTO_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+//empty until we add the API
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif
+