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libwebsockets v4.4.1

Created: 2016-09-18
Updated: 2025-09-03

Libwebsockets is a lightweight pure C library built to use minimal CPU and memory resources, and provide fast throughput in both directions as client or server.

https://libwebsockets.org/

# License

MIT

MIT License

LICENSE

# Supported Platforms

!uwp

✅ linux
✅ osx
✅ windows

❌ ~~uwp~~

# Features

No features defined.

# Dependencies

libuv
Platforms: !emscripten
openssl
pthreads
zlib

No transitive dependencies.

# Host Dependencies

and one transitive dependency:

vcpkg-cmake-get-vars (by openssl )

# Dependents

kubernetes

# Host Dependents

No dependents.

# Contributors

Alexander Karatarakis
Ninetainedo
Robert Schumacher
Dale Stammen
Andrew Male
Ivy Snow
pravic
wangli28
Stefano Sinigardi
Phoebe
craftwar
Alexander Neumann
iainchesworth
Shuanglei Tao
NancyLi1013
NancyLi1013
zbroyar
Ma
Jack·Boos·Yu
Phoebe
Ahmed Yarub Hani Al Nuaimi
Antoine Hoarau
JonLiu1993
autoantwort
Frank
Billy O'Neal
Thomas1664
Marcus O
gerard-ryan-immersaview
Adrien Bourdeaux

# Changelog

3a19af4
3a19af4 [libwebsockets] Update to 4.4.1 (#47187)
2025-09-03
a0c0139
a0c0139 [libwebsockets] Update to 4.3.5 (#45229)
2025-04-25
6db51d8
6db51d8 [vcpkg_replace_string] warn unchanged by call (#34719)
2024-06-19
f4aa70a
f4aa70a [libwebsockets] Update to version 4.3.3 (#39302)
2024-06-17
382c902
382c902 [libwebsockets] Update to v4.3.2 (#28095)
2022-12-01
407bc79
407bc79 [openssl] update to 3.0.2 (#22878)
2022-04-06
c9e786d
c9e786d [many ports] remove remaining vcpkg_fail_port_install calls. (#22770)
2022-01-25
eecbe2a
eecbe2a [libwebsockets] Fix building with Emscripten (#22563)
2022-01-18
2100b83
2100b83 [lws] Update version to 4.3.0 (#21672)
2021-11-26
cb066f1
cb066f1 [libwebsockets] no absolute paths (#21137)
2021-11-08

and 42 more commits:

e7e328c
e7e328c [many ports] call vcpkg_fixup_pkgconfig() (#20953)
2021-10-27
1251762
1251762 [libwebsockets] remove restriction for arm platform (#20738)
2021-10-15
5aec72b
5aec72b [mosquitto] Update to 2.0.12 (#20148)
2021-09-27
9d892ff
9d892ff [libwebsockets] Enable separate debug and release builds (#20251)
2021-09-22
bcf551b
bcf551b [fftw3/libwebsockets/uwebsockets] Update to latest release (#20051)
2021-09-08
422d8ab
422d8ab [libwebsockets] Update dependency (#17253)
2021-04-29
ff615bb
ff615bb [libwebsockets] Fix usage, export include path (#17003)
2021-04-07
6b1db3e
6b1db3e [libwebsockets] Update to v4.1.6 (#16767)
2021-03-19
bc61b70
bc61b70 [libwebsockets] Extend LWS build params with gencrypto & tls options (#14074)
2020-10-20
be0c342
be0c342 Use libwebsocket's master for libuv-related bugfixes (#13939)
2020-10-13
690215d
690215d [libwebsockets] Update to the latest version (#13803)
2020-10-07
c1be618
c1be618 [libwebsockets] Update to 4.0.1 (#10658)
2020-04-03
0f1294c
0f1294c [libwebsockets] Update options -DLWS_USE_BUNDLED_ZLIB as -DLWS_WITH_BUNDLED_ZLIB
2020-04-02
bc37190
bc37190 [libwebsockets] add libuv support (#9970)
2020-02-13
925041e
925041e Updating library to v3.2.2 from v3.2.0. (#9734)
2020-01-22
bdae090
bdae090 [libpq, openssl, librtmp] libpq 12 and others with openssl 1.1.1d (#8566)
2020-01-13
f188960
f188960 Update libwebsockets to v3.2.0 (#8017)
2019-09-09
bcff929
bcff929 Add PREFER_NINJA to many ports (#7468)
2019-07-31
47d206e
47d206e [many ports] improvements for linux/wsl (#6730)
2019-06-20
b4ae1fb
b4ae1fb [libwebsockets] Fix build error on Linux (#6855)
2019-06-17
18b029a
18b029a [WIP] Add a Homepage URL entry for vcpkg ports (#2933)
2019-06-15
bb1bb1c
bb1bb1c Updates 2018.12.14
2019-01-09
64a7483
64a7483 Upgrades 2018.09.18
2018-09-19
6ad96b7
6ad96b7 2018.05.17 updates
2018-05-17
96da24e
96da24e [cimg][doctest][harfbuzz][libwebsockets] Upgrades
2018-03-11
933c462
933c462 [libwebsockets] update to 2.4.1
2018-01-19
482f85f
482f85f [libwebsockets] Use vcpkg_from_github. Compare against VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE instead of VCPKG_CRT_LINKAGE. Use vcpkg_fixup_cmake_targets().
2017-11-11
1b67990
1b67990 Removing static linkage warning/toggle
2017-11-11
679dd12
679dd12 Incrementing CONTROL version for libwebsockets
2017-11-11
b5afd00
b5afd00 Modifying libwebsockets portfile to account for static triplets
2017-11-11
26516fe
26516fe vcpkg_configure_cmake (and _meson) now embed debug symbols within static libs (/Z7)
2017-09-09
b415c13
b415c13 [libwebsockets] Bump version to correspond to source code change for uwp support.
2017-01-13
e4b1551
e4b1551 apply patch to all builds, not just uwp
2017-01-12
2f92128
2f92128 added support to build uwp versions
2017-01-12
cadee66
cadee66 If portfile is not static-enabled yet, warn and then build dynamic The opposite if portfile is not dynamic enabled
2016-11-08
1808d46
1808d46 triplet is now automatically included before portfiles.
2016-11-08
b12d182
b12d182 [libwebsockets] Mark as not static ready
2016-10-26
b1fe038
b1fe038 Remove use of vcpkg_build_cmake() across all portfiles. Fixes #123
2016-10-06
3679955
3679955 Introduce SOURCE_PATH to almost all portfiles
2016-09-28
930d0a7
930d0a7 URL and MIRRORS are now URLS
2016-09-25
fc26083
fc26083 Second part of updated portfiles
2016-09-22
ccca198
ccca198 Initial commit
2016-09-18

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