diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 245b454dd..4826d2d99 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ jobs:
           - build: 'clblast'
             defines: '-DLLAMA_CLBLAST=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/clblast"'
           - build: 'openblas'
-            defines: '-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS -DBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/include"'
+            defines: '-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS -DBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/include"' -DBLAS_LIBRARIES="$env:RUNNER_TEMP/openblas/lib/openblas.lib"'
 
     steps:
       - name: Clone
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 31c5bd91d..21f4ec9dd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ endif()
 # 3rd party libs
 option(LLAMA_ACCELERATE                 "llama: enable Accelerate framework"                    ON)
 option(LLAMA_BLAS                       "llama: use BLAS"                                       OFF)
-option(LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR                "llama: BLA_VENDOR from https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/module/FindBLAS.html#blas-lapack-vendors" Generic)
+set(LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR "Generic" CACHE STRING "llama: BLAS library vendor")
 option(LLAMA_CUBLAS                     "llama: use cuBLAS"                                     OFF)
 set(LLAMA_CUDA_DMMV_X "32" CACHE STRING "llama: x stride for dmmv CUDA kernels")
 set(LLAMA_CUDA_DMMV_Y "1" CACHE STRING  "llama: y block size for dmmv CUDA kernels")