diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index 75b7f9d1..61ed7b82 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ _add_example(cpp-multithread
 if(NOT WIN32)
 	target_link_libraries(cpp-multithread pthread)
 endif()
+if(APPLE)
+	# since we use a deployment target of 10.8, the non-C++11-compliant libstdc++ is chosen by default; we need C++11
+	# see issue #302 for more details
+	target_compile_options(cpp-multithread PRIVATE --stdlib=libc++)
+	target_link_libraries(cpp-multithread --stdlib=libc++)
+endif()
 
 _add_example(drawtext
 	drawtext/main.c