diff --git a/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn b/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
index 6ee03675b1f3..72ce1e37320f 100644
--- a/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
+++ b/starboard/android/shared/BUILD.gn
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static_library("starboard_platform") {
     "player_set_max_video_input_size.h",
     "player_set_playback_rate.cc",
     "posix_emu/errno.cc",
+    "posix_emu/pthread.cc",
     "posix_emu/stat.cc",
     "sanitizer_options.cc",
     "socket_get_interface_address.cc",
diff --git a/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/include/pthread.h b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/include/pthread.h
index 1c10db2da10f..b1f7d926dec0 100644
--- a/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/include/pthread.h
+++ b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/include/pthread.h
@@ -17,8 +17,16 @@
 
 #include_next <pthread.h>
 
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
 #if __ANDROID_API__ < 26
 int pthread_getname_np(pthread_t thread, char* name, size_t len);
 #endif  // __ANDROID_API__ < 26
 
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
 #endif  // STARBOARD_ANDROID_SHARED_POSIX_EMU_INCLUDE_PTHREAD_H_
diff --git a/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/pthread.cc b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/pthread.cc
index 633b11e5e44b..da2f1a0070ad 100644
--- a/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/pthread.cc
+++ b/starboard/android/shared/posix_emu/pthread.cc
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 #include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+extern "C" {
+
 #if __ANDROID_API__ < 26
 // The API doesn exist before API Level 26 and we currently target 24
 // If this is the current thread we can obtain the name using `prctl`.
@@ -30,4 +32,5 @@ int pthread_getname_np(pthread_t thread, char* name, size_t len) {
   }
   return -1;
 }
+}
 #endif  // __ANDROID_API__ < 26