diff --git a/contrib/seekable_format/examples/Makefile b/contrib/seekable_format/examples/Makefile
index 336d8c722..f15a4a15a 100644
--- a/contrib/seekable_format/examples/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/seekable_format/examples/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 
 ZSTDLIB_PATH = ../../../lib
 ZSTDLIB_NAME = libzstd.a
+# Parallel tools only make sense against multi-threaded libzstd
+ZSTDLIB_TARGET = $(ZSTDLIB_NAME)-mt
 ZSTDLIB = $(ZSTDLIB_PATH)/$(ZSTDLIB_NAME)
 
 CPPFLAGS += -DXXH_NAMESPACE=ZSTD_ -I../ -I../../../lib -I../../../lib/common
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ all: seekable_compression seekable_decompression seekable_decompression_mem \
 	parallel_processing
 
 $(ZSTDLIB):
-	$(MAKE) -C $(ZSTDLIB_PATH) $(ZSTDLIB_NAME)
+	$(MAKE) -C $(ZSTDLIB_PATH) $(ZSTDLIB_TARGET)
 
 seekable_compression : seekable_compression.c $(SEEKABLE_OBJS)
 	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $^ $(LDFLAGS) -o $@