diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c374786f7..3cc07280f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -233,3 +233,21 @@ cd AppImageKit/
 sudo bash -ex install-build-deps.sh
 bash -ex build.sh
 ```
+
+## Embedding into your project (CMake)
+
+The following example is based on the build.sh script above, but gives the possibility to build AppImageKit together with your software. The section below is a snippet of a CMake script.
+
+```
+if(BUILD_OS_LINUX)
+    ExternalProject_Add(AppImageKit
+        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit.git
+        GIT_TAG appimagetool/master
+        GIT_SUBMODULES ""
+        CMAKE_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env "PATH=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/bin/:$ENV{PATH}" "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/" "LDFLAGS=-L${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib" "CPPFLAGS=-I${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include"  ${CMAKE_COMMAND}
+        CMAKE_ARGS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_TESTING=ON
+    )
+
+    SetProjectDependencies(TARGET AppImageKit DEPENDS glib libfuse cairo OpenSSL patch sed wget)
+endif()
+```