diff --git a/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake b/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
index 972068b08..78b716d35 100644
--- a/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
+++ b/Modules/FindCUDA.cmake
@@ -818,12 +818,13 @@ if(CUDA_USE_STATIC_CUDA_RUNTIME)
     else()
       unset(CMAKE_THREAD_PREFER_PTHREAD)
     endif()
-  endif()
-  if (UNIX AND NOT APPLE AND CUDA_VERSION VERSION_LESS "7.0")
-    # Before CUDA 7.0, there was librt that has things such as, clock_gettime, shm_open, and shm_unlink.
-    find_library(CUDA_rt_LIBRARY rt)
-    if (NOT CUDA_rt_LIBRARY)
-      message(WARNING "Expecting to find librt for libcudart_static, but didn't find it.")
+
+    if(NOT APPLE)
+      #On Linux, you must link against librt when using the static cuda runtime.
+      find_library(CUDA_rt_LIBRARY rt)
+      if (NOT CUDA_rt_LIBRARY)
+        message(WARNING "Expecting to find librt for libcudart_static, but didn't find it.")
+      endif()
     endif()
   endif()
 endif()