cmake and libpthread

Question

I'm ruinning on RHEL 5.1 and use gcc.

How I tell cmake to add -pthread to compilation and linking?

Answer 1

Should be as simple as adding

find_package(PTHREAD)

to your CMakeLists.txt file

Take a look at this link for more details

Answer 2

Here is the right anwser:

ADD_EXECUTABLE(your_executable ${source_files})

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(
pthread
)

equivalent to

-lpthread