diff --git a/circ_blocks/Cargo.lock b/circ_blocks/Cargo.lock
index 3ac35621..bb0f9267 100644
--- a/circ_blocks/Cargo.lock
+++ b/circ_blocks/Cargo.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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- "windows_x86_64_gnullvm 0.48.5",
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+ "windows_aarch64_msvc",
+ "windows_i686_gnu",
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diff --git a/circ_blocks/Cargo.toml b/circ_blocks/Cargo.toml
index 7a97c52a..f18801d1 100644
--- a/circ_blocks/Cargo.toml
+++ b/circ_blocks/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ edition = "2018"
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
 [dependencies]
+spartan_parallel = { path = "../spartan_parallel", default-features = false, features = [
+  "multicore",
+  "profile",
+], optional = true }
 circ_fields = { path = "circ_fields" }
 circ_opt = { path = "circ_opt" }
 circ_hc = { path = "circ_hc", default-features = false, features = [
@@ -51,10 +55,6 @@ from-pest = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 itertools = "0.10"
 petgraph = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 spartan = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, optional = true }
-spartan_parallel = { path = "../spartan_parallel", default-features = false, features = [
-  "multicore",
-  "profile",
-] }
 merlin = { version = "3.0.0" }
 curve25519-dalek = { version = "4", features = ["serde"], optional = true }
 # TODO: kill
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ approx = "0.5"
 ff = { path = "../ff" }
 
 [features]
-default = ["bellman", "r1cs", "smt", "zok"]
+default = ["default_without_spartan", "spartan_parallel"]
+default_without_spartan = ["bellman", "r1cs", "smt", "zok"]
 # frontends
 c = ["lang-c"]
 zok = ["smt", "zokrates_parser", "zokrates_pest_ast", "typed-arena", "petgraph"]
diff --git a/circ_blocks/src/target/r1cs/spartan.rs b/circ_blocks/src/target/r1cs/spartan.rs
index 80a1a058..e14ad976 100644
--- a/circ_blocks/src/target/r1cs/spartan.rs
+++ b/circ_blocks/src/target/r1cs/spartan.rs
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ pub fn r1cs_to_spartan(
 }
 
 fn int_to_scalar(i: &Integer) -> Scalar {
-    let mut accumulator = Scalar::zero();
+    let mut accumulator = Scalar::ZERO;
     let limb_bits = (std::mem::size_of::<limb_t>() as u64) << 3;
     assert_eq!(limb_bits, 64);
 
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 18ab66f8..694d84de 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ set -euxo pipefail
 
 (
   cd circ_blocks
-  cargo build --release --example zxc --no-default-features --features r1cs,smt,zok
+  cargo build --release --example zxc --no-default-features --features r1cs,smt,zok,spartan_parallel
 )