diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
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+++ b/Makefile.am
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+SUBDIRS = libsparse/
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
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+++ b/configure.ac
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+AC_INIT([img2simg], [1.0])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_RANLIB
+AC_DISABLE_SHARED
+AC_ENABLE_STATIC
+LT_INIT
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+    Makefile
+    libsparse/Makefile
+])
+AC_OUTPUT
diff --git a/libsparse/Makefile.am b/libsparse/Makefile.am
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+++ b/libsparse/Makefile.am
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+noinst_LIBRARIES = libsparse.a
+libsparse_a_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/libsparse/include
+libsparse_a_CFLAGS = -Werror
+libsparse_a_SOURCES = \
+                    backed_block.c \
+                    output_file.c \
+                    sparse.c \
+                    sparse_crc32.c \
+                    sparse_err.c \
+                    sparse_read.c
+
+bin_PROGRAMS = img2simg simg2img
+img2simg_SOURCES = img2simg.c
+img2simg_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/libsparse/include
+img2simg_LDADD = libsparse.a -lz
+simg2img_SOURCES = simg2img.c
+simg2img_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/libsparse/include
+simg2img_LDADD = libsparse.a -lz