diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 88e9cfd0c..d6dd6508b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ set(ANTLR4_WITH_STATIC_CRT OFF)
 set(ANTLR4_TAG tags/4.13.2)
 include(ExternalAntlr4Cpp)
 
+# None of AFDKO's c-sources are multithreaded, but we need to add
+# -pthreads to makeotfexe on Linux to make ANTLR happy
+set (THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG ON)
+find_package (Threads REQUIRED)
 
 if (DEFINED ENV{FORCE_BUILD_LIBXML2})
     set(BUILD_STATIC_LIBXML2 TRUE)
diff --git a/c/makeotf/source/CMakeLists.txt b/c/makeotf/source/CMakeLists.txt
index cd97cab52..a20a76962 100644
--- a/c/makeotf/source/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/c/makeotf/source/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,10 +27,15 @@ if (HAVE_M_LIB)
     target_link_libraries(makeotfexe PRIVATE m)
 endif ()
 
+if (CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT)
+    target_link_libraries(makeotfexe PRIVATE Threads::Threads)
+endif ()
+
 target_link_libraries(makeotfexe PUBLIC ${CHOSEN_LIBXML2_LIBRARY})
 
 target_compile_definitions(makeotfexe PRIVATE MAKEOTFLIB_EXPORTS=1)
 
 # set_target_properties(makeotfexe PROPERTIES MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY "MultiThreaded$<$<CONFIG:Debug>:Debug>")
 
+
 install(TARGETS makeotfexe DESTINATION bin)