diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index c3c5479..2d04151 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,14 @@ build_script:
 # add compilers binary dir to path
 - set path=%path%;C:\software\mingw64\bin
 
+# download and unpack the  OpenBLAS library, integer*4 (or i32lp64) version
+- ps: wget http://skylink.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openblas/v0.2.14/OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32.zip -OutFile OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32.zip
+- 7z x OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32.zip > NUL
+
+# add both OpenBLAS dynamic (libopenblas.dll) and static (libopenblas.a) library files dir to path
+- set path=%path%;C:\software\OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32\bin;C:\software\OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32\lib
+
+
 # download and upgrade pip
 - ps: wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -OutFile get-pip.py
 - python get-pip.py
diff --git a/test/test.py b/test/test.py
index 9f14a89..fce3ad9 100644
--- a/test/test.py
+++ b/test/test.py
@@ -176,14 +176,12 @@ def test_fc_static():
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
-@skip_on_windows
 def test_fc_blas():
-    configure_build_and_exe('fc_blas', 'python setup.py --fc=gfortran')
+    configure_build_and_exe('fc_blas', 'python setup.py --fc=gfortran --cmake-options="-DMATH_LIB_SEARCH_ORDER=\'OPENBLAS;ATLAS;MKL;SYSTEM_NATIVE\'"')
 
 
-@skip_on_windows
 def test_fc_blas_static():
-    configure_build_and_exe('fc_blas', 'python setup.py --fc=gfortran --static')
+    configure_build_and_exe('fc_blas', 'python setup.py --fc=gfortran --static --cmake-options="-DMATH_LIB_SEARCH_ORDER=\'OPENBLAS;ATLAS;MKL;SYSTEM_NATIVE\'"')
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------