diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8754bd8..15bfea3 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -184,8 +184,119 @@ if(OS_WINDOWS AND NOT libobs_DIR)
     endif()
 endif()
 
+# ...and the exact same problem, one level down, for w32-pthreads.
+#
+# libobs/cmake/os-windows.cmake links `PUBLIC OBS::w32-pthreads`, so
+# obs-studio's libobsConfig.cmake.in carries, verbatim:
+#
+#   if(MSVC)
+#     find_dependency(w32-pthreads REQUIRED)
+#   endif()
+#
+# That call is REQUIRED, it runs from inside libobsConfig.cmake, and until
+# this block existed it aborted the whole configure the moment the libobs_DIR
+# fix above finally succeeded in loading that config file:
+#
+#   By not providing "Findw32-pthreads.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this
+#   project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
+#   "w32-pthreads", but CMake did not find one.
+#     .deps/cmake/libobs/libobsConfig.cmake:30 (find_dependency)
+#
+# This is NOT a missing export. deps/w32-pthreads/CMakeLists.txt ends with
+# `target_export(w32-pthreads)`, which is the same helper libobs itself uses
+# (cmake/common/helpers_common.cmake): it emits install(TARGETS ... EXPORT
+# w32-pthreadsTargets), install(EXPORT ... NAMESPACE OBS::), a generated
+# w32-pthreadsConfig.cmake and its version file, all COMPONENT Development.
+# Those rules *must* exist and *must* have run, for two independent reasons:
+#
+#  1. CMake hard-errors at generate time if a target in one export set links
+#     to a target that is in no export set at all ("install(EXPORT
+#     "libobsTargets") includes target "libobs" which requires target
+#     "w32-pthreads" that is not in any export set"). obs-studio's generate
+#     step succeeded, so w32-pthreads was exported.
+#  2. The install rules land under the libobs *directory* (this repo's
+#     _patch_obs_studio_w32_pthreads adds deps/w32-pthreads from
+#     libobs/CMakeLists.txt), and libobs is the first subdirectory the modern
+#     top-level CMakeLists.txt adds -- so its whole subtree installs before
+#     the tolerated UI/obs-frontend-api install error aborts the rest.
+#
+# The failure is purely the search path, identical to libobs's: target_export
+# installs the package to "${OBS_CMAKE_DESTINATION}/${target}", which on
+# Windows is <prefix>/cmake/w32-pthreads/ -- a shape find_package never
+# searches. So apply the same remedy CMake's own error message suggests, and
+# do it BEFORE find_package(libobs) below, because that is the call that
+# transitively triggers find_dependency(w32-pthreads).
+#
+# macOS and Linux never reach this: the find_dependency is inside `if(MSVC)`,
+# and OS_WINDOWS gates the block regardless -- a pure no-op off Windows.
+if(OS_WINDOWS AND NOT w32-pthreads_DIR)
+    set(_stplugin_win_pthreads_dir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.deps/cmake/w32-pthreads")
+    if(EXISTS "${_stplugin_win_pthreads_dir}/w32-pthreadsConfig.cmake")
+        set(w32-pthreads_DIR "${_stplugin_win_pthreads_dir}" CACHE PATH
+            "Directory containing w32-pthreadsConfig.cmake" FORCE)
+        message(STATUS
+            "w32-pthreads_DIR not set; libobsConfig.cmake's "
+            "find_dependency(w32-pthreads REQUIRED) hits the same "
+            "OBS_CMAKE_DESTINATION=cmake search-suffix problem as libobs "
+            "itself, so pointing it directly at the from-source install: "
+            "${_stplugin_win_pthreads_dir}")
+    else()
+        # Fall back to a hand-written find module rather than letting the
+        # REQUIRED find_dependency kill the configure. cmake/windows is
+        # already on CMAKE_MODULE_PATH (see cmake/common/osconfig.cmake), so
+        # the fallback module deliberately lives in a subdirectory that is
+        # NOT -- a Findw32-pthreads.cmake sitting on the default module path
+        # would shadow OBS's own exported package on every build, and its
+        # real export is the better answer whenever it is present.
+        #
+        # Reaching here means the bootstrap install did not produce the
+        # export, so say exactly what IS in .deps/cmake/ -- the next CI log
+        # then answers the question directly instead of costing another run.
+        file(GLOB _stplugin_deps_cmake_dirs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.deps/cmake/*")
+        message(STATUS
+            "No w32-pthreadsConfig.cmake at ${_stplugin_win_pthreads_dir}; "
+            "OBS CMake packages actually installed under .deps/cmake: "
+            "'${_stplugin_deps_cmake_dirs}'. Falling back to this repo's own "
+            "Findw32-pthreads.cmake, which builds OBS::w32-pthreads straight "
+            "from the bootstrap's build artifacts.")
+        list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/windows/find-fallback")
+    endif()
+endif()
+
 find_package(libobs QUIET)
 
+# OBS::w32-pthreads can come back locationless for exactly the same reason
+# OBS::libobs can (see the block below this one): the package config loads,
+# but the per-configuration w32-pthreadsTargets-release.cmake that carries
+# IMPORTED_IMPLIB/IMPORTED_LOCATION may not have been installed. libobs links
+# it PUBLIC, so it is on this plugin's own link line and an empty location is
+# a generate-time error, not a warning. Repair it from the known install
+# destinations (obs-studio/cmake/windows/defaults.cmake:
+# OBS_EXECUTABLE_DESTINATION=bin/64bit for the DLL, OBS_LIBRARY_DESTINATION=lib
+# for the import library) -- the same repair, and the same reasoning, as the
+# OBS::libobs one.
+if(OS_WINDOWS AND TARGET OBS::w32-pthreads)
+    get_target_property(_stplugin_pthreads_implib OBS::w32-pthreads IMPORTED_IMPLIB)
+    get_target_property(_stplugin_pthreads_implib_release OBS::w32-pthreads IMPORTED_IMPLIB_RELEASE)
+    if(NOT _stplugin_pthreads_implib AND NOT _stplugin_pthreads_implib_release)
+        find_file(_stplugin_pthreads_implib_found w32-pthreads.lib
+            PATHS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.deps/lib" NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+        find_file(_stplugin_pthreads_dll_found w32-pthreads.dll
+            PATHS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.deps/bin/64bit" NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+        if(_stplugin_pthreads_implib_found)
+            set_target_properties(OBS::w32-pthreads PROPERTIES
+                IMPORTED_IMPLIB "${_stplugin_pthreads_implib_found}")
+            if(_stplugin_pthreads_dll_found)
+                set_target_properties(OBS::w32-pthreads PROPERTIES
+                    IMPORTED_LOCATION "${_stplugin_pthreads_dll_found}")
+            endif()
+            message(STATUS
+                "OBS::w32-pthreads had no imported location; pointed it at "
+                "${_stplugin_pthreads_implib_found}")
+        endif()
+    endif()
+endif()
+
 # The imported OBS::libobs target can come back without a location. OBS 30.0.2
 # installs libobsTargets.cmake but not the per-configuration
 # libobsTargets-<config>.cmake alongside it when libobs is built on its own,
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8cd7193..d9bc777 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -458,3 +458,86 @@ pass", which earlier (failing-job) runs did show before failing later in the
 job. The `w32-pthreads` blocker above is the next thing to solve, and it is
 upstream's problem to work around rather than a defect in this repo's
 bootstrap.
+
+### After the w32-pthreads target: the w32-pthreads *package*
+
+The `add_subdirectory(deps/w32-pthreads)` patch above did its job — the
+`edb0c02`-era generate error is gone, obs-studio 30.0.2 configures, builds
+`w32-pthreads.dll` and `obs.dll`, and installs. Two further Windows-only
+blockers then surfaced behind it, both the same underlying upstream mismatch
+and neither one a defect in this repo:
+
+1. **`find_package(libobs)` could not locate the package it had just
+   installed.** obs-studio's `cmake/windows/defaults.cmake` sets
+   `OBS_CMAKE_DESTINATION=cmake`, and `target_export()` installs each
+   package to `<prefix>/${OBS_CMAKE_DESTINATION}/<target>/` — i.e.
+   `.deps/cmake/libobs/`. That is not one of CMake's Config-mode search
+   suffixes (`<prefix>/cmake/` is, but only for a config file sitting
+   *directly* in it; `<prefix>/<name>*/cmake/` is, but the `<name>`
+   directory has to come first). Fixed in `79de5e8f` by setting
+   `libobs_DIR` explicitly; the long comment above that block in
+   `CMakeLists.txt` has the full reasoning.
+
+2. **…and then `libobsConfig.cmake` could not locate `w32-pthreads` for
+   exactly the same reason.** `libobs/cmake/os-windows.cmake` links
+   `PUBLIC OBS::w32-pthreads`, so upstream's `libobsConfig.cmake.in` carries
+   a hard `find_dependency(w32-pthreads REQUIRED)` under `if(MSVC)`. Once
+   fix 1 finally got that config file loaded, the dependency lookup inside
+   it failed and killed the configure:
+
+   ```
+   By not providing "Findw32-pthreads.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project
+   has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
+   "w32-pthreads", but CMake did not find one.
+     .deps/cmake/libobs/libobsConfig.cmake:30 (find_dependency)
+   ```
+
+   **This is not a missing export**, which was the first hypothesis and is
+   worth recording as wrong: `deps/w32-pthreads/CMakeLists.txt` ends with
+   `target_export(w32-pthreads)`, the same helper `libobs` itself uses, so
+   it does emit `install(TARGETS … EXPORT w32-pthreadsTargets)`,
+   `install(EXPORT … NAMESPACE OBS::)` and a generated
+   `w32-pthreadsConfig.cmake`, all `COMPONENT Development`. Two independent
+   arguments say those rules ran: CMake hard-errors at generate time if an
+   exported target links a target that is in no export set at all (and OBS's
+   generate step succeeded), and this repo's patch adds `deps/w32-pthreads`
+   from `libobs/CMakeLists.txt`, making it part of the `libobs` subtree —
+   which installs *before* the tolerated `UI/obs-frontend-api` install error
+   aborts the rest. The package really is at `.deps/cmake/w32-pthreads/`;
+   `find_package` was simply never going to look there.
+
+   So the fix is the same one-liner as for `libobs`, and it is literally
+   what CMake's own error message suggests: set `w32-pthreads_DIR` before
+   the `find_package(libobs)` call that transitively triggers the
+   `find_dependency`. Both `_DIR` blocks now sit next to each other in
+   `CMakeLists.txt`.
+
+   Behind that sits `cmake/windows/find-fallback/Findw32-pthreads.cmake`,
+   used only if that export is genuinely absent from `.deps/`. It rebuilds
+   `OBS::w32-pthreads` by hand from the bootstrap's own artifacts. It
+   deliberately does *not* live in `cmake/windows/`, which
+   `cmake/common/osconfig.cmake` already puts on `CMAKE_MODULE_PATH` for
+   every Windows configure — a find module there would shadow OBS's real
+   exported package on every build, since `find_package` tries MODULE mode
+   before CONFIG mode. `CMakeLists.txt` appends the `find-fallback/`
+   directory to `CMAKE_MODULE_PATH` only after it has established the real
+   export is missing, and logs what *is* under `.deps/cmake/` when it does,
+   so a future failure of this shape is answered by the CI log rather than
+   by another run.
+
+   Note this package is load-bearing for more than the dependency check:
+   `libobs/util/threading.h` does `#include <pthread.h>`, and on Windows
+   that header only exists because `target_export(w32-pthreads)` installs
+   `pthread.h`/`sched.h` as `PUBLIC_HEADER` into `.deps/include/`.
+
+Verified before pushing, on Linux, since this is a Linux sandbox: a
+reconstruction of the exact failure — a stub `libobsConfig.cmake` containing
+`find_dependency(w32-pthreads REQUIRED)`, reached through `libobs_DIR`, with
+the package installed at `.deps/cmake/w32-pthreads/` — reproduces the CI
+error without the `w32-pthreads_DIR` block and passes with it; and the
+fallback find module was exercised separately by deleting that package, with
+`find_package` resolving through MODULE mode to it instead. A full Linux
+configure of this repo is unchanged (both blocks are inside `if(OS_WINDOWS)`,
+and the upstream `find_dependency` is inside `if(MSVC)`, so macOS and Linux
+are pure no-ops). Whether the real Windows runner now gets to a
+`streamer-tools-camera.dll` is what the CI run on this commit has to show.
diff --git a/cmake/windows/find-fallback/Findw32-pthreads.cmake b/cmake/windows/find-fallback/Findw32-pthreads.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b7904a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/windows/find-fallback/Findw32-pthreads.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+# Findw32-pthreads.cmake -- last-resort fallback, Windows only.
+#
+# WHY THIS EXISTS
+#
+# obs-studio's libobs links `PUBLIC OBS::w32-pthreads` on Windows
+# (libobs/cmake/os-windows.cmake), so the libobsConfig.cmake it installs
+# carries an unconditional, REQUIRED dependency on a findable `w32-pthreads`
+# CMake package:
+#
+#   if(MSVC)
+#     find_dependency(w32-pthreads REQUIRED)
+#   endif()
+#
+# obs-studio *does* export that package -- deps/w32-pthreads/CMakeLists.txt
+# ends in `target_export(w32-pthreads)` -- but it exports it to
+# <prefix>/cmake/w32-pthreads/, the same OBS_CMAKE_DESTINATION shape that
+# find_package's Config-mode search suffixes never look at. The top-level
+# CMakeLists.txt therefore points `w32-pthreads_DIR` straight at it, exactly
+# as it already does for `libobs_DIR`, and that is the path this build is
+# expected to take.
+#
+# This module is only reached when that export is genuinely absent from
+# .deps/ -- for instance if a future obs-studio changes where or whether
+# deps/w32-pthreads installs its package, or if the tolerated
+# UI/obs-frontend-api install error in
+# cmake/common/buildspec_common.cmake::_setup_obs_studio ever starts aborting
+# the install *before* libobs's own subtree instead of after it. In that case
+# the alternative is a hard configure failure inside libobsConfig.cmake with
+# no plugin module built at all, so reconstructing the imported target by
+# hand from artifacts the bootstrap definitely produced is strictly better.
+#
+# It deliberately lives in cmake/windows/find-fallback/ and NOT in
+# cmake/windows/, which cmake/common/osconfig.cmake puts on CMAKE_MODULE_PATH
+# for every Windows configure. A Findw32-pthreads.cmake on the default module
+# path would win over OBS's own exported package on every single build
+# (find_package tries MODULE mode before CONFIG mode), permanently replacing
+# upstream's real export metadata with this approximation. The top-level
+# CMakeLists.txt appends this directory to CMAKE_MODULE_PATH only when it has
+# already established that the real export is missing.
+#
+# Nothing outside Windows ever loads this: the find_dependency above is
+# inside `if(MSVC)`, and the CMAKE_MODULE_PATH append that exposes this file
+# is inside `if(OS_WINDOWS ...)`.
+
+if(TARGET OBS::w32-pthreads)
+  set(w32-pthreads_FOUND TRUE)
+  return()
+endif()
+
+# Resolve paths from this file's own location rather than
+# CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR: a find module runs in whatever scope called
+# find_package, and here that call comes from inside libobsConfig.cmake.
+# <repo>/cmake/windows/find-fallback/ -> <repo>
+get_filename_component(_w32pt_repo_root "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../.." ABSOLUTE)
+set(_w32pt_deps "${_w32pt_repo_root}/.deps")
+
+# Search order, both from obs-studio's own Windows layout:
+#   1. the bootstrap's install prefix -- obs-studio/cmake/windows/defaults.cmake
+#      sets OBS_LIBRARY_DESTINATION=lib (ARCHIVE, i.e. the import library),
+#      OBS_EXECUTABLE_DESTINATION=bin/64bit (RUNTIME, i.e. the DLL) and
+#      OBS_INCLUDE_DESTINATION=include (where target_export installs
+#      w32-pthreads' PUBLIC_HEADER pthread.h/sched.h);
+#   2. the obs-studio build tree the bootstrap just built in, in case the
+#      install step is what failed rather than the export.
+file(GLOB _w32pt_build_trees "${_w32pt_deps}/obs-studio-*/build_*/deps/w32-pthreads/Release")
+file(GLOB _w32pt_source_trees "${_w32pt_deps}/obs-studio-*/deps/w32-pthreads")
+
+find_library(
+  w32-pthreads_IMPLIB
+  NAMES w32-pthreads
+  PATHS "${_w32pt_deps}/lib" ${_w32pt_build_trees}
+  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
+)
+find_file(
+  w32-pthreads_RUNTIME_LIBRARY
+  NAMES w32-pthreads.dll
+  PATHS "${_w32pt_deps}/bin/64bit" ${_w32pt_build_trees}
+  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
+)
+find_path(
+  w32-pthreads_INCLUDE_DIR
+  NAMES pthread.h
+  PATHS "${_w32pt_deps}/include" ${_w32pt_source_trees}
+  NO_DEFAULT_PATH
+)
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+find_package_handle_standard_args(
+  w32-pthreads
+  REQUIRED_VARS w32-pthreads_IMPLIB w32-pthreads_INCLUDE_DIR
+  REASON_FAILURE_MESSAGE
+    "The OBS SDK bootstrap neither exported a w32-pthreads CMake package under ${_w32pt_deps}/cmake/ nor left a w32-pthreads import library anywhere under ${_w32pt_deps}."
+)
+
+if(w32-pthreads_FOUND)
+  # SHARED, matching deps/w32-pthreads/CMakeLists.txt's own
+  # `add_library(w32-pthreads SHARED ...)`. IMPORTED_LOCATION is the DLL and
+  # IMPORTED_IMPLIB the .lib, which is what an imported SHARED library means
+  # on Windows; if only the .lib was found, declare it UNKNOWN instead so
+  # CMake does not demand a DLL it will never be handed.
+  if(w32-pthreads_RUNTIME_LIBRARY)
+    add_library(OBS::w32-pthreads SHARED IMPORTED)
+    set_target_properties(
+      OBS::w32-pthreads
+      PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION "${w32-pthreads_RUNTIME_LIBRARY}" IMPORTED_IMPLIB "${w32-pthreads_IMPLIB}"
+    )
+  else()
+    add_library(OBS::w32-pthreads UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+    set_target_properties(OBS::w32-pthreads PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION "${w32-pthreads_IMPLIB}")
+  endif()
+  set_target_properties(
+    OBS::w32-pthreads
+    PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${w32-pthreads_INCLUDE_DIR}"
+  )
+  message(STATUS "Findw32-pthreads (fallback): OBS::w32-pthreads -> ${w32-pthreads_IMPLIB}")
+endif()
+
+mark_as_advanced(w32-pthreads_IMPLIB w32-pthreads_RUNTIME_LIBRARY w32-pthreads_INCLUDE_DIR)