diff --git a/sw.cpp b/sw.cpp
index a2108a77..22cba4a6 100644
--- a/sw.cpp
+++ b/sw.cpp
@@ -79,7 +79,9 @@ void build(Solution &s)
         }
         if (!win_or_mingw)
         {
+#if SW_MODULE_ABI_VERSION > 29
             if (!libtesseract.getBuildSettings().TargetOS.Android)
+#endif
                 libtesseract += "pthread"_slib;
         }
         if (libtesseract.getBuildSettings().TargetOS.Arch == ArchType::aarch64)