diff --git a/idg-bin/examples/cxx/CMakeLists.txt b/idg-bin/examples/cxx/CMakeLists.txt
index a16fec19f1cc8839207d4aaedb2de086017a89f3..77b07f54f98284bbf60ede66e453a2100ae38fcb 100644
--- a/idg-bin/examples/cxx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/idg-bin/examples/cxx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ if (BUILD_LIB_OPENCL)
 add_subdirectory(OpenCL)
 endif ()
 add_subdirectory(plan)
+add_subdirectory(distributed)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/idg-lib/CMakeLists.txt b/idg-lib/CMakeLists.txt
index 5b740b948ac810cadf5f4c75dafd41261de39868..e78ba7800a0f5bdecfa7a9f6d6ec615d41ebb878 100644
--- a/idg-lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/idg-lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ option (BUILD_LIB_CPU "Build CPU libraries" ON)
 option (BUILD_LIB_CUDA "Build CUDA libraries" OFF)
 #option (BUILD_LIB_OPENCL "Build OpenCL libraries" OFF)
 option (BUILD_WITH_MKL "Build with MKL (if available)" OFF)
-option (BUILD_WITH_POWERSENSOR " Build with PowerSensor" OFF)
+option (BUILD_WITH_POWERSENSOR "Build with PowerSensor" OFF)
+option (BUILD_WITH_MPI "Build with MPI" OFF)
 option (PERFORMANCE_REPORT "Report performance metrics" OFF)
 option (COMPILE_VERBOSE "Report compiler flags used during runtime compilation" OFF)
 option (STRICT_WARNINGS "Turn compiliation warnings into errors" ON)
@@ -124,6 +125,11 @@ if (BUILD_LIB_CUDA)
 find_package(CUDA QUIET)
 endif()
 
+# MPI
+if (BUILD_WITH_MPI)
+find_package(MPI QUIET)
+endif()
+
 include_directories (${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/src)
 
 # add main include folder