diff --git a/externals/Makefile b/externals/Makefile
index 05f894e6ac9bd6c7318351a42e5cb14aaf37be63..cb2f99f41f9e4bde8debe50a8edaf0db97fcfc23 100644
--- a/externals/Makefile
+++ b/externals/Makefile
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ ifeq ($(OS_NAME),windows)
 # all of these included libs are part of libc in UNIX platforms.  All except
 # libregex are in DLLs, so they get stripped from the external's .dll binary
   LIBS += -L$(pd_src)/src -L$(pd_src)/bin -L$(pd_src)/obj -lpd \
-    -lwsock32 -liphlpapi -lpthreadGC2 -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lregex
+    -lwsock32 -liphlpapi -lpthread -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lregex
   DYLIB_LDFLAGS = -shared
   STRIP = strip --strip-unneeded -R .note -R .comment
 endif