diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt	(revision b0a749c8e7a8294b68581ce4feac0e55045eb00b)
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	(date 1669850509296)
@@ -494,6 +494,11 @@
 set(LWS_EXT_PTHREAD_INCLUDE_DIR CACHE PATH "Path to an external pthreads include directory")
 set(LWS_EXT_PTHREAD_LIBRARIES CACHE PATH "Path to an external pthreads library")
 
+if(WIN32)
+    find_package(pthreads_windows REQUIRED)
+    set(LWS_EXT_PTHREAD_INCLUDE_DIR ${PThreads4W_INCLUDE_DIR})
+    set(LWS_EXT_PTHREAD_LIBRARIES ${PThreads4W_LIBRARY})
+endif()
 
 if (LWS_WITH_HTTP_STREAM_COMPRESSION)
 	set(LWS_WITH_ZLIB 1)
@@ -850,7 +855,7 @@
 	# Turn off pointless microsoft security warnings.
 	add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE)
 	# Fail the build if any warnings
-	add_compile_options(/W3 /WX)
+	add_compile_options(/W3 /WX /wd4142 /wd4267 /wd4996)
 	# Unbreak MSVC broken preprocessor __VA_ARGS__ behaviour
 	if (MSVC_VERSION GREATER 1925)
 		add_compile_options(/Zc:preprocessor /wd5105)