diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4bf81e43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+language: go
+
+go:
+  - "1.11"
+  - "master"
+
+before_install:
+  - echo "deb http://apt.llvm.org/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty-7 main"            | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
+  - echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-toolchain-r/test/ubuntu trusty main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
+  - sudo apt-get update -qq
+  - sudo apt-get install llvm-7-dev gcc-8 --allow-unauthenticated -y
+  - sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-8 /usr/local/bin/cc # work around missing -no-pie in old GCC version
+
+install:
+  - go get github.com/aykevl/go-llvm
+  - go get golang.org/x/tools/go/ssa
+
+script: go test -v .
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 8f570494..ee678273 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # TinyGo - Go compiler for microcontrollers
 
 [![Documentation Status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/tinygo/badge/?version=latest)](https://tinygo.readthedocs.io/)
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/aykevl/tinygo.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/aykevl/tinygo)
 
 > We never expected Go to be an embedded language and so it's got serious
 > problems [...].