diff --git a/src/MEDPartitioner/CMakeLists.txt b/src/MEDPartitioner/CMakeLists.txt
index e088a0ed4..048505267 100644
--- a/src/MEDPartitioner/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/MEDPartitioner/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -114,8 +114,12 @@ SET(medpartitionercpp_LDFLAGS
   interpkernel
   medcouplingcpp
   medloader
-  -lpthread
 )
+
+if(NOT WIN32)
+    list(APPEND medpartitionercpp_LDFLAGS -lpthread)
+endif()
+
 IF(MEDCOUPLING_PARTITIONER_PARMETIS)
   SET(medpartitionercpp_HEADERS_HXX ${medpartitionercpp_HEADERS_HXX} MEDPARTITIONER_ParMetisGraph.hxx)
   SET(medpartitionercpp_SOURCES ${medpartitionercpp_SOURCES} MEDPARTITIONER_ParMetisGraph.cxx MEDPARTITIONER_MetisGraph.cxx)