diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 70de780f82..688f6ab803 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3289,7 +3289,7 @@ uspp_filter_deps="gpl avcodec"
 vaguedenoiser_filter_deps="gpl"
 vidstabdetect_filter_deps="libvidstab"
 vidstabtransform_filter_deps="libvidstab"
-libvmaf_filter_deps="libvmaf"
+libvmaf_filter_deps="libvmaf pthreads"
 zmq_filter_deps="libzmq"
 zoompan_filter_deps="swscale"
 zscale_filter_deps="libzimg const_nan"