libpqv18.4

Updated: 2026-05-21

The official database access API of postgresql

Project website: https://www.postgresql.org/

#Usage

libpq provides CMake integration:

find_package(PostgreSQL REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE PostgreSQL::PostgreSQL)

#License

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL License

#Supported Platforms

!uwp & !emscripten

✅linux
✅osx
✅windows

❌~~uwp~~

#Features

Default features: lz4, openssl, zlib

#all

Build all supported features

Dependencies:

libpq
Features: client, icu, lz4, nls, openssl, zlib, zstd
libpq
Platforms: !windows
Features: lz4, openssl, readline, zlib

and 11 transitive dependencies:

gettext-libintl (through libpq)
icu (through libpq)
libiconv (through gettext-libintl)
Platforms: !linux
lz4 (through libpq)
ncurses (through readline-unix)
openssl (through libpq)
readline (through libpq)
readline-unix (through readline)
Platforms: !windows
readline-win32 (through readline)
Platforms: windows
zlib (through libpq)
zstd (through libpq)

Host Dependencies:

5 transitive dependencies:

gettext (through libpq)
Features: tools
vcpkg-cmake (through vcpkg-cmake-get-vars)
vcpkg-cmake-config (through lz4)
vcpkg-cmake-get-vars (through icu)
vcpkg-make (through icu)

#client

Build all client tools and libraries

Dependencies:

No dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

libpq
Features: client

No transitive dependencies.

#icu

Build with support for the ICU library

Dependencies:

No transitive dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

3 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through vcpkg-cmake-get-vars)
vcpkg-cmake-get-vars (through icu)
vcpkg-make (through icu)

#lz4default

Use lz4

Dependencies:

No transitive dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

2 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through lz4)
vcpkg-cmake-config (through lz4)

#nls

Native Language Support

Platforms: !osx

✅linux
✅windows

❌~~osx~~

Dependencies:

gettext-libintl

and one transitive dependency:

libiconv (through gettext-libintl)
Platforms: !linux

Host Dependencies:

gettext
Features: tools

and 3 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through vcpkg-cmake-get-vars)
vcpkg-cmake-get-vars (through libiconv)
Platforms: android
vcpkg-make (through libiconv)

#openssldefault

support for encrypted client connections and random number generation on platforms that do not have "/dev/urandom" (except windows)

Dependencies:

openssl

No transitive dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

3 transitive dependencies:

#readline

Use readline

Platforms: !windows, mingw

✅linux
✅osx

❌~~windows~~

Dependencies:

readline

and 3 transitive dependencies:

ncurses (through readline-unix)
readline-unix (through readline)
Platforms: !windows
readline-win32 (through readline)
Platforms: windows

Host Dependencies:

4 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through vcpkg-cmake-get-vars)
vcpkg-cmake-config (through readline-win32)
vcpkg-cmake-get-vars (through ncurses)
vcpkg-make (through ncurses)

#zlibdefault

Use zlib

Dependencies:

zlib

No transitive dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

2 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through zlib)
vcpkg-cmake-config (through zlib)

#zstd

Use zstd

Dependencies:

zstd

No transitive dependencies.

Host Dependencies:

2 transitive dependencies:

vcpkg-cmake (through zstd)
vcpkg-cmake-config (through zstd)

#Dependencies

No dependencies.

#Host Dependencies

and one transitive dependency:

vcpkg-cmake (through vcpkg-cmake-get-vars)

#Used By

#Host Tool For

libpq (feature client)

#Contributors

Charlie Barto
charlie barto
atkawa7
Alexander Karatarakis
Robert Schumacher
Robert Isaacs
Erwan BERNARD
Jackie Ng
Stefano Sinigardi
pravic
Ian P. Cooke
Kai Blaschke
AlvinZhangH
Alexander Neumann
Phil Christensen
Daniel
mcgoo
Phoebe
Billy O'Neal
Vicki Pfau
nicole mazzuca
Jack·Boos·Yu
Andrei Lebedev
ras0219
autoantwort
An Tao
Long Nguyen
Long Huan
Matthias Kuhn
Daniel Schürmann
Kai Pastor
ArcticLampyrid
Osyotr
JonLiu1993
Todor Prokopov
MonicaLiu
jim wang
DevFdv
Emre
Frank Hale
Daniele E. Domenichelli

#Changelog

1e8128d
1e8128d[libpq] Update to 18.4 (#51881)
2026-05-21
6756643
6756643libpq: depend on vcpkg-tool-meson >= 1.9.0#7 (#51795)
2026-05-16
17662e6
17662e6[libpq] Revise, use meson for all targets (#51250)
2026-05-01
717e7d7
717e7d7Update libpq to version 18.3 (#50345)
2026-03-25
df6c3cd
df6c3cd[libpq] fix x64-mingw-static build producing import libraries instead of static archives (#49557)
2026-01-25
be563df
be563df[libpq] explicitly disable emscripten support (#48489)
2025-11-27
6e1badf
6e1badf[libpq]: Update tzcode to 2025b (because old version removed from msys2 repo) (#47256)
2025-09-12
a9eee3b
a9eee3b[libpq] Update to 16.9 (#45625)
2025-05-29
f45c0ed
f45c0ed[giflib,libpq]: Fix wrappers and libpq[nls](windows) (#45573)
2025-05-26
246459d
246459d[libpq] fix build with macos 15.4 (#45032)
2025-04-17

Show 78 earlier changes

d4738eb
d4738eb[libpq] Update to 16.4 (#40485)
2024-08-19
6af584d
6af584d[libpq] Update to 16.3 (#40110)
2024-08-06
27404c2
27404c2[libpq] Delete gendef.pl related patches (#36992)
2024-02-28
46c5f1f
46c5f1f[libpq] Update to 16.2 (#36849)
2024-02-21
f45fd33
f45fd33[libpq] fix build for *-android-dynamic (#36344)
2024-01-25
cbb9d90
cbb9d90[libpq] Fix MinGW build (#34747)
2023-10-27
84b4fe2
84b4fe2[libpq] update to 16.0 (#34368)
2023-10-10
2b28527
2b28527[libpq] Unconditionally install to subdir (#33564)
2023-09-06
c6928df
c6928df[python3] Update to 3.11.4 (#31727)
2023-08-07
2f56fda
2f56fda[libpq,libxslt] Update libpq, fix misc issues (#31314)
2023-05-31
2c4c5c7
2c4c5c7[libpq] nls does not support osx (#31031)
2023-04-24
7cda278
7cda278[libpq] Fix windows build without openssl (#30650)
2023-04-05
73b9a2a
73b9a2a[openssl,vcpkg-cmake-get-vars] Fix android and emscripten, add feature tools (#29966)
2023-03-14
2c3f7b4
2c3f7b4[Libpq] update to 15.2 (#29867)
2023-03-01
28324ed
28324ed[libpq] fix build with non-English MSVC (#26921) (#27851)
2022-11-18
be15c29
be15c29[libpq] Fix osx-dynamic (#27103)
2022-10-05
6ca56ae
6ca56ae[libpq] Fix ios build (#26906)
2022-09-26
52b6604
52b6604[libpq] update to 14.4 and pass flags in msbuild (#26051)
2022-08-04
d953973
d953973[libpq] Cleanup dependencies, features and autotools patches (#24941)
2022-05-27
0497767
0497767[libpq] no absolute paths (#23774)
2022-03-31
440075a
440075a[libpq] Update version to 14.1 2 (#22516)
2022-03-23
01a065a
01a065aLibpq update and VCPKG_OSX_SYSROOT fix (#21583)
2021-12-14
ff3e120
ff3e120[libpq] no absolute paths (#21271)
2021-11-10
4df8c6d
4df8c6d[libpq] Android compatibility (#21073)
2021-11-08
eabb3ff
eabb3ff[libpq]fix windows build failure (#19031)
2021-07-22
e2c3030
e2c3030[libpq] Add Secur32.lib and openssl to libpq cmake wrapper (#18377)
2021-06-15
d36f68e
d36f68e[libpq] Fix cmake wrapper on Windows, add usage (#17232)
2021-04-30
326eabc
326eabc[libpq] fix python patches (#15579)
2021-04-28
818cf25
818cf25[libpq] mingw support (#16740)
2021-04-19
b230db9
b230db9[drogon] Update to 1.4.1 (#16651)
2021-03-19
112067d
112067d[libpq] fix filenames (linux -> windows cross compile) (#16434)
2021-03-01
0e31988
0e31988[libpq] Fix install tool pg_config on Linux (#15748)
2021-01-28
78d4f88
78d4f88[libpq] Change compile flag /Zi to /Z7 when building Windows (#15361)
2020-12-30
678e305
678e305[libpq/ffmpeg] Fix iconv/intl linkage not covered by CI (#14626)
2020-11-19
de29967
de29967[libpq] Fix incidental linkage of DL on windows platforms. (#14172)
2020-10-22
8d4fd6d
8d4fd6d[vcpkg, libpq] separate static and shared library installations (#13491)
2020-09-24
11f15f3
11f15f3[libpq] only require bison and flex on Windows (#12674)
2020-08-05
bad319d
bad319d[libpq] Remove broken features (#12415)
2020-07-15
ef91134
ef91134[cmocka libarchive libiconv libpq libxml2 plibsys] fix drive-by error in vcpkg-cmake-wrappers (#12196)
2020-07-02
1d8f0ac
1d8f0ac[vcpkg manifest] Manifest Implementation (#11757)
2020-06-30
eede79e
eede79eFix bootstrapping MSYS2 pacman (#11499) (#12080)
2020-06-24
4fb2256
4fb2256[vcpkg] Allow CI to pass in all relevant directories and remove use of symbolic links (#11483)
2020-06-03
4312808
4312808[vcpkg baseline] Fix baseline failures (#11612)
2020-05-28
27c6c94
27c6c94[vcpkg] Improve make builds (#10402)
2020-05-21
6b871df
6b871df[libpq] Update to 12.2 and some feature fixes (#10915)
2020-05-18
de340a0
de340a0link libdl on linux (#11223)
2020-05-08
4772dc2
4772dc2[libpq] Fix build failure when vcpkg path contains spaces (#10274)
2020-03-27
279faa3
279faa3[libpq][spdk-ipsec] Rebuild to correct baseline (#10445)
2020-03-18
e62d136
e62d136[vcpkg] Add Supports: field. Use contents of triplets instead of names for dependency resolution. (#8601)
2020-02-03
bdae090
bdae090[libpq, openssl, librtmp] libpq 12 and others with openssl 1.1.1d (#8566)
2020-01-13
6bed46f
6bed46f[libpq] Update deprecated functions
2019-12-09
c6ef1ac
c6ef1ac[libpq] Update the CONTROL version, Delete deprecated functions
2019-12-09
3ef6dd9
3ef6dd9[libpq] #undef int128 type if compiling for 32 bit architecture (#8080)
2019-09-10
5a476f9
5a476f9libpq requires HAVE_CRYPTO_LOCK for thread safety with openssl <1.1.0 (#8076)
2019-09-06
18b029a
18b029a[WIP] Add a Homepage URL entry for vcpkg ports (#2933)
2019-06-15
a930373
a930373[LibLZMA] automatic configuration (#6000)
2019-05-28
7028438
7028438[libpq]: Fix linkage with static openssl (#6309)
2019-05-06
0cac89b
0cac89b[libpq] bump version number in CONTROL
2019-04-12
7fb37a9
7fb37a9[libpq] fix error at link time on linux
2019-04-12
f21d4f1
f21d4f1Include libpq-events header file (#4559)
2018-10-25
b14c1ba
b14c1ba[libpq][harfbuzz][qt5-base] Fix non-Windows
2018-03-24
c17ce74
c17ce74[libpq] Fix config writing into source dir
2018-03-13
26516fe
26516fevcpkg_configure_cmake (and _meson) now embed debug symbols within static libs (/Z7)
2017-09-09
f9278cd
f9278cd[libpq] update
2017-07-27
67303f1
67303f1Added libpq support to qt5
2016-12-02
ca5989f
ca5989fadd support for SOCI
2016-11-17
901db23
901db23remove debug postfix again, missed in rebase
2016-11-17
89b42cc
89b42ccmade libpq copy pdb files
2016-11-17
5ace538
5ace538revert debug rename, it was a stupid idea
2016-11-17
cb488d8
cb488d8added libpq port
2016-11-17
dcca77c
dcca77cinstall types and genbki, this seems to be needed for cmake's findpostgresql
2016-11-17
b81c914
b81c914used export all symbols instead of pq's .def files, this is so that we don't have to change the sources depending on debug or release config
2016-11-17
da65430
da65430made libpq copy pdb files
2016-11-17
a77bed2
a77bed2revert debug rename, it was a stupid idea
2016-11-17
79ff444
79ff444removed debug suffix from libpq
2016-11-17
2418a15
2418a15install pg_config.h
2016-11-17
6c22b89
6c22b89updated dependencies for libpq
2016-11-17
1cc7a47
1cc7a47added libpq port
2016-11-17

#Usage

#License

#Supported Platforms

#Features

#all

#client

#icu

#lz4default

#nls

#openssldefault

#readline

#zlibdefault

#zstd

#Dependencies

#Host Dependencies

#Used By

#Host Tool For

#Contributors

#Changelog

#Port Files