Package Installation Reference

libbson and libmongoc are available from several package management tools on a variety of systems.

Important

The third-party packages detailed here are not directly controlled via the mongo-c-driver maintainers, and the information found here may be incomplete or out-of-date.

Package Names and Availability

This table details the names and usage notes of such packages.

Note

The development packages (ending in -dev or -devel) include files required to build applications using libbson and libmongoc.

See also

For a step-by-step tutorial on installing packages, refer to Installing Prebuilt MongoDB C Driver Libraries.

Packaging Tool	Platform(s)	libbson package(s)	libmongoc package(s)	Notes
APT (apt/apt-get)	Debian-based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc.)	libbson-1.0-0, libbson-dev, libbson-doc	libmongoc-1.0-0, libmongoc-dev, libmongoc-doc
Yum/DNF	RHEL-based systems (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux)	libbson, libbson-devel	mongo-c-driver-libs, mongo-c-driver-devel	Except on Fedora the EPEL repositories must be enabled (i.e. install the epel-release package first)
APK	Alpine Linux	libbson, libbson-dev, libbson-static	libmongoc, libmongoc-dev, libmongoc-static
pacman	Arch Linux	mongo-c-driver	mongo-c-driver	A single package provides both runtime and development support for both libbson and libmongoc
Homebrew	macOS	mongo-c-driver	mongo-c-driver
Conan	Cross-platform	mongo-c-driver	mongo-c-driver	See: Conan Settings and Features
vcpkg	Cross-platform	libbson	mongo-c-driver	See: vcpkg Optional Features

Conan Settings and Features

The mongo-c-driver Conan recipe includes several build settings that correspond to the configure-time build settings available when building the mongo-c-driver project.

See also

The mongo-c-driver Conan recipe (includes libbson)

Setting	Options	Default	Notes
shared	(Boolean)	False	Build the shared library instead of the static library
fPIC	(Boolean)	True	Compile code as position-independent
srv	(Boolean)	True	Enables MongoDB SRV URI support
with_ssl	openssl, libressl, windows, darwin, False	openssl [1]	Select a TLS backend. Setting to “False” disables TLS support.
with_sasl	sspi, cyrus, False	sspi on Windows, False elsewhere	Enable SASL authentication support
with_snappy	(Boolean)	True	Enable Snappy compression
with_zlib	(Boolean)	True	Enable Zlib compression
with_zstd	(Boolean)	True	Enable Zstd compression

[1]

Conan will use OpenSSL as the default TLS backend, even on platforms that ship with their own TLS implementation (e.g. Windows and macOS). This behavior differs from the upstream default-configured libmongoc or the vcpkg distribution of mongo-c-driver, which both default to use the TLS implementation preferred for the target platform.

vcpkg Optional Features

The mongo-c-driver package offered by vcpkg supports several optional features.

See also

• The vcpkg libbson port

• The vcpkg mongo-c-driver port

Feature	Notes
icu	Installs the ICU library, which is necessary for non-ASCII usernames and passwords in pre-1.25 libmongoc
openssl	Use OpenSSL for encryption, even on Windows and Apple platforms which provide a native TLS backend. If omitted, the default will be to use the preferred TLS implementation for the system.
snappy	Enable the Snappy compression backend
zstd	Enable the Zstd compression backend