diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 960fcc5..8490a47 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 project(libxiv)
 
+include(FetchContent)
+
 find_package(fmt QUIET)
 
 if(TARGET fmt::fmt)
@@ -15,6 +17,8 @@ else()
     GIT_TAG        master
     )
 
+    set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
     FetchContent_MakeAvailable(fmt)
 
     set(LIBRARIES fmt::fmt ${LIBRARIES})
@@ -41,16 +45,22 @@ else()
             GIT_TAG        master
     )
 
+    set(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
+
     FetchContent_MakeAvailable(zlib)
 
-    set(LIBRARIES zlib ${LIBRARIES})
-endif()
+    # welcome to hell, cmake.
+    include_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/zlib-src)
+    # NO REALLY, HELL IS THIS WAY
+    include_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/zlib-build)
 
+    set(LIBRARIES zlibstatic ${LIBRARIES})
+endif()
 
 add_library(libxiv STATIC
         src/fiinparser.cpp
         src/indexparser.cpp
-        src/crc32.cpp
+        src/crc32checksum.cpp
         src/gamedata.cpp
         src/compression.cpp
         src/exhparser.cpp
diff --git a/include/crc32.h b/include/crc32checksum.h
similarity index 100%
rename from include/crc32.h
rename to include/crc32checksum.h
diff --git a/src/crc32.cpp b/src/crc32checksum.cpp
similarity index 96%
rename from src/crc32.cpp
rename to src/crc32checksum.cpp
index bda444b..6c5e544 100644
--- a/src/crc32.cpp
+++ b/src/crc32checksum.cpp
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#include "crc32.h"
+#include "crc32checksum.h"
 
 void CRC32::generate_table(uint32_t(&table)[256]) {
     uint32_t polynomial = 0xEDB88320;
diff --git a/src/gamedata.cpp b/src/gamedata.cpp
index 68bbe0a..ccc5000 100644
--- a/src/gamedata.cpp
+++ b/src/gamedata.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #include "gamedata.h"
 #include "indexparser.h"
-#include "crc32.h"
+#include "crc32checksum.h"
 #include "compression.h"
 #include "string_utils.h"