diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4f7373b..621d711 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@ script:
   - docker exec --env BRANCH=$BRANCH ubuntu-build /bin/bash -c "/travis/workdir/build-tests/ubuntu/compile-ubuntu.sh"
   - docker exec --env BRANCH=$BRANCH arch-build /bin/bash -c "/travis/workdir/build-tests/arch/prepare-arch.sh"
   - docker exec --env BRANCH=$BRANCH arch-build /bin/bash -c "/travis/workdir/build-tests/arch/compile-arch.sh"
+  - docker exec --env BRANCH=$BRANCH sl-build /bin/bash -c "/travis/workdir/build-tests/sl/prepare-sl.sh"
+  - docker exec --env BRANCH=$BRANCH sl-build /bin/bash -c "/travis/workdir/build-tests/sl/compile-sl.sh"
 
diff --git a/build-tests/sl/compile-sl.sh b/build-tests/sl/compile-sl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ff6027c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-tests/sl/compile-sl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Building SageCal for Scientific Linux" && \
+echo "Branch --> $BRANCH" && \
+cd /travis/workdir
+
+# compile casacore first
+mkdir -p /opt/soft/casacore/data
+cd /opt/soft/casacore/data
+wget -c ftp://ftp.astron.nl/outgoing/Measures/WSRT_Measures.ztar
+tar zxfv WSRT_Measures.ztar && rm -f WSRT_Measures.ztar
+
+cd /tmp
+git clone --progress --verbose https://github.com/casacore/casacore.git casacore_install
+cd casacore_install
+
+mkdir casacore/build
+cd casacore/build
+cmake -DUSE_FFTW3=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/soft/casacore -DDATA_DIR=/opt/soft/casacore/data -DUSE_OPENMP=ON \
+    -DUSE_HDF5=ON -DBUILD_PYTHON=ON -DUSE_THREADS=ON ..
+make -j4
+make install
+
+# compile sagecal
+cd /travis/workdir && \
+mkdir build-sl && cd build-sl
+
+cmake .. -DENABLE_CUDA=OFF && \
+make -j4 && \
+ls -alsrt ./dist/bin && \
+./dist/bin/sagecal
+
diff --git a/build-tests/sl/prepare-sl.sh b/build-tests/sl/prepare-sl.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e0e645c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build-tests/sl/prepare-sl.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# add EPEL repository for openblas
+yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
+
+# install dependencies
+yum -y install git pkgconfig cmake cmake-gui gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ flex bison \
+       openblas openblas-devel glib2-devel lapack lapack-devel cfitsio cfitsio-devel \
+       wcslib wcslib-devel ncurses ncurses-devel readline readline-devel\
+       python-devel boost boost-devel fftw fftw-devel hdf5 hdf5-devel\
+       numpy boost-python
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