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short-description: Enabling thread support
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# Threads

Meson has a very simple notational shorthand for enabling thread
support on your build targets. First you obtain the thread dependency
object like this:

```meson
thread_dep = dependency('threads')
```

And then you just use it in a target like this:

```meson
executable('threadedprogram', ...
  dependencies : thread_dep)
```