diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index dbbc0b5..935fba8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -159,23 +159,59 @@ if (LLAMA_BLAS)
     if ($(CMAKE_VERSION) VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 3.22)
         set(BLA_SIZEOF_INTEGER 8)
     endif()
+
     set(BLA_VENDOR ${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR})
     find_package(BLAS)
+
     if (BLAS_FOUND)
         message(STATUS "BLAS found, Libraries: ${BLAS_LIBRARIES}")
 
-        # BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS is missing in FindBLAS.cmake.
-        # see https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/20268
-        find_path(BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS
-            NAMES cblas.h
-            HINTS
-                /usr/include
-                /usr/local/include
-                /usr/include/openblas
-        )
+        if ("${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS}" STREQUAL "")
+            # BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS is missing in FindBLAS.cmake.
+            # see https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/20268
+            find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
+            if (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "Generic")
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED blas)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "OpenBLAS")
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED openblas)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "FLAME")
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED blis)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "ATLAS")
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED blas-atlas)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "FlexiBLAS")
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED flexiblas_api)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "Intel")
+                # all Intel* libraries share the same include path
+                pkg_check_modules(DepBLAS REQUIRED mkl-sdl)
+            elseif (${LLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR} MATCHES "NVHPC")
+                # this doesn't provide pkg-config
+                # suggest to assign BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS on your own
+                if ("${NVHPC_VERSION}" STREQUAL "")
+                    message(WARNING "Better to set NVHPC_VERSION")
+                else()
+                    set(DepBLAS_FOUND ON)
+                    set(DepBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS "/opt/nvidia/hpc_sdk/${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}_${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR}/${NVHPC_VERSION}/math_libs/include")
+                endif()
+            endif()
+            if (DepBLAS_FOUND)
+                set(BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS ${DepBLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+            else()
+                message(WARNING "BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS neither been provided nor been automatically"
+                " detected by pkgconfig, trying to find cblas.h from possible paths...")
+                find_path(BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS
+                    NAMES cblas.h
+                    HINTS
+                        /usr/include
+                        /usr/local/include
+                        /usr/include/openblas
+                        /opt/homebrew/opt/openblas/include
+                        /usr/local/opt/openblas/include
+                        /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas/include
+                )
+            endif()
+        endif()
 
         message(STATUS "BLAS found, Includes: ${BLAS_INCLUDE_DIRS}")
-
         add_compile_options(${BLAS_LINKER_FLAGS})
         add_compile_definitions(GGML_USE_OPENBLAS)
         set(LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS} ${BLAS_LIBRARIES})