diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5587c343..7d3f9059 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ option(WITH_HTTP            "Enable HTTP protocol support (client/server)" ON)
 option(WITH_CN_EXTREMELITE  "CryptoNight-Extremelite support" ON)
 option(WITH_DEBUG_LOG       "Enable debug log output" OFF)
 option(WITH_TLS             "Enable OpenSSL support" ON)
-option(WITH_ZLIB            "Enabled gzip compression on CC (client/server)")
+option(WITH_ZLIB            "Enabled gzip compression on CC (client/server)" OFF)
 option(WITH_ASM             "Enable ASM PoW implementations" ON)
 option(WITH_EMBEDDED_CONFIG "Enable internal embedded JSON config" OFF)
 option(WITH_CC_CLIENT       "CC Client" ON)
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ if (WITH_CC_SERVER OR WITH_CC_CLIENT)
             src/cc/GPUInfo.cpp)
 
     if (WITH_ZLIB)
+        set(ZLIB_ROOT ${XMRIG_DEPS})
         find_package(ZLIB)
         add_definitions(/DCPPHTTPLIB_ZLIB_SUPPORT)
     endif()
@@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ if (WITH_DEBUG_LOG)
 endif()
 
 add_executable(xmrigMiner ${HEADERS} ${SOURCES} ${SOURCES_OS} ${SOURCES_CPUID} ${HEADERS_CRYPTO} ${SOURCES_CRYPTO} ${SOURCES_SYSLOG} ${TLS_SOURCES} ${XMRIG_ASM_SOURCES} ${CN_GPU_SOURCES} ${SOURCES_CC_CLIENT} ${SOURCES_CC_COMMON})
-target_link_libraries(xmrigMiner ${XMRIG_ASM_LIBRARY} ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES} ${UV_LIBRARIES} ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${CPUID_LIB} ${ARGON2_LIBRARY})
+target_link_libraries(xmrigMiner ${XMRIG_ASM_LIBRARY} ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES} ${UV_LIBRARIES} ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${CPUID_LIB} ${ARGON2_LIBRARY} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
 set_target_properties(xmrigMiner PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME ${MINER_EXECUTABLE_NAME})
 
 add_executable(xmrigDaemon src/cc/XMRigd.cpp res/app.rc)