diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ca3be38a5..38e7266dc 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ project("llama.cpp")
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 20)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED true)
 set(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 11)
+set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON)
+find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 
 if (NOT XCODE AND NOT MSVC AND NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
     set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release CACHE STRING "Build type" FORCE)
@@ -126,3 +128,4 @@ 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(ggml PRIVATE Threads::Threads)