diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4fc1545..20a7101 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 *.lib
 
 build
+release
 
 # Executables
 *.exe
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ab3d6ca..e3dc5e7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ option(MSGPACK_USE_BOOST "Use Boost libraried" OFF)
 add_subdirectory(msgpack)
 
 option(MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER "Enable SentencePiece tokenizer" ON)
+message(DEBUG "MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER= ${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER}")
 
 if(MSVC)
   set(TOKENIZERS_RUST_LIB "${TOKENIZERS_CPP_CARGO_BINARY_DIR}/tokenizers_c.lib")
@@ -153,16 +154,23 @@ add_custom_command(
 
 set(
   TOKENIZER_CPP_SRCS
-  src/sentencepiece_tokenizer.cc
   src/huggingface_tokenizer.cc
   src/rwkv_world_tokenizer.cc
 )
+if (${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER})
+  list(APPEND TOKENIZER_CPP_SRCS src/sentencepiece_tokenizer.cc)
+endif()
+
 add_library(tokenizers_cpp STATIC ${TOKENIZER_CPP_SRCS})
-target_include_directories(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE sentencepiece/src)
+
+if (${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER})
+  target_include_directories(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE sentencepiece/src)
+endif()
 target_include_directories(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE msgpack/include)
 target_include_directories(tokenizers_cpp PUBLIC ${TOKENIZERS_CPP_INCLUDE})
-if (MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER STREQUAL "ON")
-    target_compile_definitions(tokenizers_cpp PUBLIC MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER)
+
+if (${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER})
+  target_compile_definitions(tokenizers_cpp PUBLIC MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER)
 endif ()
 target_link_libraries(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE msgpack-cxx)
 
@@ -178,10 +186,14 @@ if (CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "iOS")
           XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_${XCODE_PROPERTY} ${XCODE_VALUE})
   endmacro (set_xcode_property)
 endif()
-add_subdirectory(sentencepiece sentencepiece EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+if (${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER})
+  add_subdirectory(sentencepiece sentencepiece EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
+endif()
 
 add_library(tokenizers_c INTERFACE ${TOKENIZERS_RUST_LIB})
 target_link_libraries(tokenizers_c INTERFACE ${TOKENIZERS_RUST_LIB} ${TOKENIZERS_C_LINK_LIBS})
-
-target_link_libraries(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE tokenizers_c sentencepiece-static ${TOKENIZERS_CPP_LINK_LIBS})
+if (${MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER})
+  set(SPLIB "sentencepiece-static")
+endif()
+target_link_libraries(tokenizers_cpp PRIVATE tokenizers_c ${SPLIB} ${TOKENIZERS_CPP_LINK_LIBS})
 target_include_directories(tokenizers_cpp PUBLIC ${TOKENIZERS_CPP_INCLUDE})
diff --git a/example/CMakeLists.txt b/example/CMakeLists.txt
index faf2d75..91d73de 100644
--- a/example/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/example/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ if(NOT MSVC)
   check_cxx_compiler_flag("-std=c++17" SUPPORT_CXX17)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-std=c++17 ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
   set(CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD 17)
+  find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 else()
   check_cxx_compiler_flag("/std:c++17" SUPPORT_CXX17)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "/std:c++17 ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
@@ -24,4 +25,4 @@ target_include_directories(example PRIVATE ${TOKENZIER_CPP_PATH}/include)
 
 # You can link tokenizers_cpp, it will automatically link tokenizers_c
 # and sentencepiece libary
-target_link_libraries(example PRIVATE tokenizers_cpp)
+target_link_libraries(example PRIVATE tokenizers_cpp Threads::Threads)
diff --git a/example/build_and_run.sh b/example/build_and_run.sh
index 19e426d..494e805 100755
--- a/example/build_and_run.sh
+++ b/example/build_and_run.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,19 @@
 #/bin/bash
-
+echo "Usage: $0 (ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER default value 1=ON)"
 # build
 mkdir -p build
 cd build
-cmake ..
-make -j8
+echo
+echo "cmake ..."
+echo "CXX=$CXX"
+g++ --version
+
+ENABLESP=${1:-ON}
+
+cmake .. -DMLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER=$ENABLESP || exit 1
+echo
+echo "make..."
+make -j8 || exit 1
 cd ..
 # get example files
 
@@ -26,8 +35,9 @@ fi
 if [ ! -f "merges.txt" ]; then
     wget https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct/resolve/main/merges.txt
 fi
+
 cd ..
 
 # run
 echo "---Running example----"
-./build/example
+./build/example || exit 1
diff --git a/example/example.cc b/example/example.cc
index 274b49d..0172abf 100644
--- a/example/example.cc
+++ b/example/example.cc
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 using tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
 std::string LoadBytesFromFile(const std::string& path) {
+  std::cout << "Loading " << path << std::endl;
   std::ifstream fs(path, std::ios::in | std::ios::binary);
   if (fs.fail()) {
     std::cerr << "Cannot open " << path << std::endl;
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ void TestTokenizer(std::unique_ptr<Tokenizer> tok, bool print_vocab = false,
   std::cout << std::endl;
 }
 
+#ifdef MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER
 // Sentencepiece tokenizer
 // - dist/tokenizer.model
 void SentencePieceTokenizerExample() {
@@ -80,6 +82,7 @@ void SentencePieceTokenizerExample() {
 
   TestTokenizer(std::move(tok), false, true);
 }
+#endif
 
 // HF tokenizer
 // - dist/tokenizer.json
@@ -141,7 +144,9 @@ void RWKVWorldTokenizerExample() {
 }
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
+#ifdef MLC_ENABLE_SENTENCEPIECE_TOKENIZER
   SentencePieceTokenizerExample();
+#endif
   HuggingFaceTokenizerExample();
   HuggingFaceBPETokenizerExample();
   RWKVWorldTokenizerExample();