# building/referencing a library

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-referencing-a-library/1446
**Category:** Usage
**Created:** [June 25, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-referencing-a-library/1446 "2020-06-25T23:25:46Z")
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### Author: ![sszabo](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/sszabo/32/6030_2.png) [@sszabo](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/sszabo)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-referencing-a-library/1446/8 "2020-07-08T18:49:10Z")

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That’s for finding the threading library on the system (like pthreads, etc), see cmake’s Modules/FindThreads.cmake for what it’s doing.

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