diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c9a8062..b366108 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 find_package(PkgConfig)
 include(MacroEnsureVersion)
 include(MacroBoolTo01)
+set(CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD TRUE)
+set(THREADS_PREFER_PTHREAD_FLAG TRUE)
 find_package(Threads)
 include(TestBigEndian)
 test_big_endian(WORDS_BIGENDIAN)
@@ -287,9 +289,6 @@
   ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/poppler
   ${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS}
 )
-if(CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT)
-  set(HAVE_PTHREAD ON)
-endif()
 
 if(ENABLE_ZLIB)
   include_directories(${ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR})
@@ -534,9 +533,6 @@
 if(TIFF_FOUND)
   set(poppler_LIBS ${poppler_LIBS} ${TIFF_LIBRARIES})
 endif()
-if(HAVE_PTHREAD)
-  set(poppler_LIBS ${poppler_LIBS} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
-endif()
 
 if(MSVC)
 add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS)
@@ -547,6 +543,9 @@
 endif()
 set_target_properties(poppler PROPERTIES VERSION 71.0.0 SOVERSION 71)
 target_link_libraries(poppler LINK_PRIVATE ${poppler_LIBS})
+if(CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT)
+   target_link_libraries(poppler LINK_PRIVATE Threads::Threads)
+endif()
 install(TARGETS poppler RUNTIME DESTINATION bin LIBRARY DESTINATION lib${LIB_SUFFIX} ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib${LIB_SUFFIX})
 
 if(ENABLE_XPDF_HEADERS)
diff --git a/glib/CMakeLists.txt b/glib/CMakeLists.txt
index 1f06fec..3e861c0 100644
--- a/glib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/glib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -83,8 +83,8 @@
 add_library(poppler-glib SHARED ${poppler_glib_SRCS} ${poppler_glib_generated_SRCS})
 set_target_properties(poppler-glib PROPERTIES VERSION 8.9.0 SOVERSION 8)
 target_link_libraries(poppler-glib poppler ${GLIB2_LIBRARIES} ${CAIRO_LIBRARIES} ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES})
-if(HAVE_PTHREAD)
-   target_link_libraries(poppler-glib -lpthread)
+if(CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT)
+   target_link_libraries(poppler-glib Threads::Threads)
 endif()
 install(TARGETS poppler-glib RUNTIME DESTINATION bin LIBRARY DESTINATION lib${LIB_SUFFIX} ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib${LIB_SUFFIX})
 
diff --git a/utils/CMakeLists.txt b/utils/CMakeLists.txt
index 2925eb2..0d82d4e 100644
--- a/utils/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/utils/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@
   if(LCMS_FOUND)
     target_link_libraries(pdftocairo ${LCMS_LIBRARIES})
   endif()
-  if(HAVE_PTHREAD)
-    target_link_libraries(pdftocairo ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+  if(CMAKE_USE_PTHREADS_INIT)
+    target_link_libraries(pdftocairo Threads::Threads)
   endif()
   if(LCMS2_FOUND)
     target_link_libraries(pdftocairo ${LCMS2_LIBRARIES})