diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-package.yml b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24308ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-package.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+# This workflow will install Python dependencies, run tests and lint with a variety of Python versions
+# For more information see: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/automating-builds-and-tests/building-and-testing-python
+
+name: bintablefile-package-build
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ $default-branch ]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
+    paths-ignore:
+      - '**.md'
+
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: true
+      matrix:
+        os: [ ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest, ubuntu-24.04-arm ]
+        python-version: [ "3.10", "3.11","3.12", "3.13" ]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install flake8 pytest
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          python -m unittest discover -s tests
+
+  build-container:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: python:3.12-bullseye
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Install dependencies in container
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install flake8 pytest
+          pip install -e ".[dev]"
+      - name: Lint with flake8 in container
+        run: |
+          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+      - name: Run unittests in container
+        run: |
+          python -m unittest discover -s tests
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5615844..8b23e55 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # Binary Table File format 
+[![Build Status](https://github.com/eSAMTrade/bintablefile/actions/workflows/python-package.yml/badge.svg?branch=main)](https://github.com/eSAMTrade/bintablefile/actions/workflows/python-package.yml)
+
 
 ## Binary Table File - efficient binary file format to store and retrieve tabular data
 
@@ -21,4 +23,10 @@ pip install bintablefile
 The library can be found on [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/bintablefile/): https://pypi.org/project/bintablefile/
 
  
-**Note**: We release directly v2.0 as v1.0 was used just internally and was not released to PyPI. The major improvement of V2 is a full-featured header, that allows to store metadata about the table, as well as store the number of records for ReadOnly compression formats like `idzip`.
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+**Note**: We release directly v2.0 as v1.0 was used just internally and was not released to PyPI. The major improvement of V2 is a full-featured header, that allows to store metadata about the table, as well as store the number of records for ReadOnly compression formats like `idzip`.
+
+
+### Local development build
+```bash
+pip install -e ".[dev]"
+```
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diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 28a2b71..6cc1cee 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+-r requirements.txt
+
 cython
 wheel
 twine
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 21bfee1..d47dcc0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ class build(build_orig):
 
     def finalize_options(self):
         super().finalize_options()
-        __builtins__.__NUMPY_SETUP__ = False
+        try:
+            __builtins__.__NUMPY_SETUP__ = False
+        except AttributeError:
+            print("Numpy is not installed, skipping numpy include dir")
         import numpy
         for extension in self.distribution.ext_modules:
             extension.include_dirs.append(numpy.get_include())
@@ -33,6 +36,8 @@ def finalize_options(self):
 
 with open("requirements-dev.txt") as fp:
     dev_requires = fp.read().strip().split("\n")
+    # ignore the lines that starts with '#' or '-r '
+    dev_requires = [line for line in dev_requires if line and not line.startswith(("#", "-r"))]
 
 setup(
     ext_modules=exts,
diff --git a/tests/test_bintablefile.py b/tests/test_bintablefile.py
index c5d4a50..fed742f 100644
--- a/tests/test_bintablefile.py
+++ b/tests/test_bintablefile.py
@@ -30,6 +30,52 @@ def setUp(self) -> None:
     def tearDown(self) -> None:
         self._tmp_dirpath.cleanup()
 
+    def test_structure(self):
+        import ctypes
+
+        def create_structure(fields):
+            """
+            Dynamically creates a ctypes.Structure subclass with given fields.
+
+            :param fields: A list of tuples where each tuple contains the field name and ctype data type
+            :return: A new ctypes.Structure subclass with the specified fields
+            """
+
+            class DynamicStructure(ctypes.Structure):
+                _fields_ = fields
+
+            return DynamicStructure
+
+        def create_structure_array(struct_cls, n):
+            """
+            Creates an array of ctypes.Structure of type struct_cls with n elements.
+
+            :param struct_cls: The ctypes.Structure subclass
+            :param n: The number of elements in the array
+            :return: An instance of the ctypes.Array filled with structures of type struct_cls
+            """
+            return (struct_cls * n)()
+
+        # Example usage:
+
+        # Define the list of field names and their ctypes types
+        fields = [
+            ('id', ctypes.c_int),
+            ('value', ctypes.c_float),
+            ('name', ctypes.c_char * 20)  # Example of a 20-char string
+        ]
+
+        # Dynamically create the structure and array of structures
+        DynamicStruct = create_structure(fields)
+        StructArray = create_structure_array(DynamicStruct, 5)  # Create an array of 5 elements
+
+        # Example of how to use the array
+        StructArray[0].id = 1
+        StructArray[0].value = 3.14
+        StructArray[0].name = b"Example"
+
+        print(StructArray[0].id, StructArray[0].value, StructArray[0].name)
+
     def test_nominal_read_write_from_the_sameobject(self):
         record_format = (int, bool, float, Decimal)
         record_file = BinTableFile(self.fpath, record_format=record_format,