Question

I know there is something like find_package(Threads) but it doesn’t seem to make a difference (at least by itself). For now I’m using SET(CMAKE_C_FLAGS ${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} "-pthread"), but it doesn’t look like a correct solution to me.

Answer 1

find_package( Threads ) calls a CMake module that first, searches the file system for the appropriate threads package for this platform, and then sets the CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT variable (and some other variables as well). It does not tell CMake to link any executables against whatever threads library it finds. You tell CMake to link you executable against the “Threads” library with the target_link_libraries() command. So, for example lets say your program is called test. To link it against threads you need to:

find_package( Threads )
add_executable( test test.cpp )
target_link_libraries( test ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} )