diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 594f7db..8beb14c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Changelog
 
 version 0.3.0-dev
 -----------------
++ Enabled installation on BSD
 + Update embedded zlib-ng version to 2.1.2. This comes with some speed
   improvements and changes with regards to the compression levels. For full
   details checkout the `zlib-ng 2.1.2 release notes
@@ -25,4 +26,4 @@ version 0.1.0
 + Add a fully featured gzip application in python m zlib_ng.gzip_ng.
 + Port Cpython's gzip module to use zlib-ng.
 + Port CPython's zlib module to use zlib-ng.
-+ Use zlib-ng version 2.0.6 as included statically linked version.
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++ Use zlib-ng version 2.0.6 as included statically linked version.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 440786b..413853b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 ZLIB_NG_SOURCE = os.path.join("src", "zlib_ng", "zlib-ng")
 
 SYSTEM_IS_UNIX = (sys.platform.startswith("linux") or
-                  sys.platform.startswith("darwin"))
+                  sys.platform.startswith("darwin") or
+                  'bsd' in sys.platform)
 SYSTEM_IS_WINDOWS = sys.platform.startswith("win")
 
 # Since pip builds in a temp directory by default, setting a fixed file in