diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ca3be38a5..3134e5847 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ if (NOT MSVC)
     endif()
 endif()
 
+include(FindThreads)
+if (NOT Threads_FOUND)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Threading library is not found")
+endif()
+
 if (APPLE AND NOT LLAMA_NO_ACCELERATE)
     find_library(ACCELERATE_FRAMEWORK Accelerate)
     if (ACCELERATE_FRAMEWORK)
@@ -124,5 +129,5 @@ target_compile_definitions(quantize PUBLIC ${LLAMA_EXTRA_FLAGS})
 
 target_link_libraries(ggml PRIVATE ${LLAMA_EXTRA_LIBS})
 target_include_directories(ggml PUBLIC .)
-target_link_libraries(quantize PRIVATE ggml)
-target_link_libraries(llama PRIVATE ggml)
+target_link_libraries(quantize PRIVATE ggml Threads::Threads)
+target_link_libraries(llama PRIVATE ggml Threads::Threads)