diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index bc17d05..a948549 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,9 +11,39 @@ include extension-ci-tools/makefiles/duckdb_extension.Makefile
 # both MEOS (meos_initialize_timezone) and DuckDB (DBConfig::SetOptionByName
 # "TimeZone") to Europe/Brussels.  Tests pass on any OS timezone — the
 # extension is the single source of truth, no TZ env var needed.
+#
+# LoadInternal also calls ExtensionHelper::AutoLoadExtension(db, "icu") so
+# the timezone option is honoured. Autoload looks for the extension on disk
+# at $HOME/.duckdb/extensions/<duckdb_version>/<platform>/icu.duckdb_extension
+# and falls back to a hub download. That fails both inside the linux_amd64
+# test docker container (empty path, no network egress) and on the macOS
+# osx_arm64 test runner (hub icu not reliably resolvable). We copy the
+# icu.duckdb_extension that was built locally as part of this extension's
+# build (declared in extension_config.cmake) into the expected path,
+# matched to the DuckDB platform string, before running the unittester.
+DUCKDB_VERSION_TAG := v1.4.4
+
+define stage_icu
+	@if [ -f ./build/$(1)/extension/icu/icu.duckdb_extension ]; then \
+	  case "$$(uname -s)-$$(uname -m)" in \
+	    Linux-x86_64)  platform=linux_amd64 ;; \
+	    Linux-aarch64) platform=linux_arm64 ;; \
+	    Darwin-arm64)  platform=osx_arm64 ;; \
+	    Darwin-x86_64) platform=osx_amd64 ;; \
+	    *)             platform=$$(uname -m) ;; \
+	  esac; \
+	  target=$$HOME/.duckdb/extensions/$(DUCKDB_VERSION_TAG)/$$platform; \
+	  mkdir -p "$$target" && cp -f ./build/$(1)/extension/icu/icu.duckdb_extension "$$target/" && \
+	  echo "Staged icu.duckdb_extension at $$target/"; \
+	fi
+endef
+
 test_release_internal:
+	$(call stage_icu,release)
 	./build/release/$(TEST_PATH) "$(PROJ_DIR)test/*"
 test_debug_internal:
+	$(call stage_icu,debug)
 	./build/debug/$(TEST_PATH) "$(PROJ_DIR)test/*"
 test_reldebug_internal:
-	./build/reldebug/$(TEST_PATH) "$(PROJ_DIR)test/*"
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+	$(call stage_icu,reldebug)
+	./build/reldebug/$(TEST_PATH) "$(PROJ_DIR)test/*"
diff --git a/src/include/tydef.hpp b/src/include/tydef.hpp
index b7b2810..b9860ca 100644
--- a/src/include/tydef.hpp
+++ b/src/include/tydef.hpp
@@ -11,11 +11,27 @@ extern "C" {
     #include <meos_internal.h>
 }
 
-// Forward-compat alias for the meosType → MeosType rename (MobilityDB
-// pr785-sync-script).  Vcpkg's MEOS exposes `MeosType`; existing
-// MobilityDuck code still uses `meosType`.  This alias bridges the two
-// without touching every reference site.
-using meosType = MeosType;
+// MEOS naming history: `meosType` is the **pre-consolidation** spelling
+// and `MeosType` is the **post-consolidation** target (the rename is
+// part of the upstream consolidation sweep, not yet reached by the
+// vcpkg pin).  The current pin
+// (`vcpkg_ports/meos/portfile.cmake` REF f11b7443ee98…) is still
+// pre-consolidation and exposes `meosType` — see
+// meos/include/temporal/meos_catalog.h, where line 121 declares
+// `} meosType;`.  MobilityDuck's source consistently uses
+// `meosType` (verified via `grep -rn '\bmeosType\b' src/`), which
+// matches the pin, so no alias is needed today.
+//
+// An earlier version of this file added `using meosType = MeosType;`
+// as a forward-looking bridge for the eventual consolidation bump.
+// That alias references `MeosType`, which the current pin does NOT
+// yet expose, so it broke the build:
+//   "'MeosType' does not name a type; did you mean 'meosType'?".
+//
+// When the MEOS pin is bumped past the consolidation point, restore
+// a bridge here (`using meosType = MeosType;` becomes valid then) or
+// sweep the source `meosType → MeosType` in one PR — whichever the
+// project prefers at that time.
 
 namespace duckdb {
 
diff --git a/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg.json
index ee22c1e..9ae3398 100644
--- a/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg.json
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
           "vcpkg-cmake",
           "openssl",
           "zlib",
+          "libxml2",
           "expat",
           {
             "name": "sqlite3",
diff --git a/vcpkg_ports/meos/portfile.cmake b/vcpkg_ports/meos/portfile.cmake
index c804af5..22c2f63 100644
--- a/vcpkg_ports/meos/portfile.cmake
+++ b/vcpkg_ports/meos/portfile.cmake
@@ -43,6 +43,127 @@ endif()
 ]=]
 )
 
+# pgPointCloud enabler. -DPOINTCLOUD=ON makes meos/src/pointcloud/
+# CMakeLists.txt FATAL_ERROR unless pointcloud-pg/lib/libpc.a exists; it
+# is built as a side effect of pgPointCloud's `./autogen.sh &&
+# ./configure && make`, which cannot run in the manylinux extension-ci
+# container (no autotools-usable PostgreSQL, no pg_config). The vendored
+# pointcloud-pg/lib/ archive sources include only libxml2 and zlib (no
+# PostgreSQL headers), and pointcloud-pg/lib/Makefile builds the libpc.a
+# target directly via `ar rs` with only the XML2/ZLIB CPPFLAGS from
+# config.mk — the CUnit dependency is confined to the `all:` cunit/
+# recurse. So we generate config.mk and lib/pc_config.h the way
+# pgPointCloud's autotools would (filling only the @VARS@ that
+# config.mk.in declares and the lib OBJS sources consume, with vcpkg's
+# libxml2/zlib paths), then build the libpc.a archive target directly.
+set(POINTCLOUD_DIR "${SOURCE_PATH}/pointcloud-pg")
+
+# config.mk: fill the @VARS@ declared by pointcloud-pg/config.mk.in.
+# XML2_CPPFLAGS mirrors `xml2-config --cflags` (-I<prefix>/include/libxml2);
+# ZLIB_CPPFLAGS is empty because zlib.h is on the default include path
+# (-I<prefix>/include); the *_LDFLAGS mirror `xml2-config --libs` / -lz
+# but only matter for linking, not for the `ar rs` static archive. LazPerf
+# and CUnit are disabled exactly as configure leaves them when neither is
+# present (no HAVE_LAZPERF / HAVE_CUNIT define).
+file(WRITE "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/config.mk"
+"CC = cc
+CFLAGS = -O2 -fPIC
+CXXFLAGS += -fPIC -std=c++0x
+SQLPP =
+
+XML2_CPPFLAGS = -I${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include/libxml2
+XML2_LDFLAGS = -L${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/lib -lxml2
+
+ZLIB_CPPFLAGS = -I${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/include
+ZLIB_LDFLAGS = -L${CURRENT_INSTALLED_DIR}/lib -lz
+
+CUNIT_CPPFLAGS =
+CUNIT_LDFLAGS =
+
+PG_CONFIG =
+PGXS =
+
+LIB_A = libpc.a
+LIB_A_LAZPERF = liblazperf.a
+
+LAZPERF_STATUS = disabled
+LAZPERF_CPPFLAGS =
+
+PGSQL_MAJOR_VERSION =
+")
+
+# lib/pc_config.h: pc_api.h does `#include \"pc_config.h\"`, normally
+# emitted by config.status from lib/pc_config.h.in. Mirror the autotools
+# no-lazperf / no-cunit output: substitute the always-AC_DEFINE'd
+# version vars, and leave HAVE_LAZPERF / HAVE_CUNIT undefined (so the
+# pc_patch_lazperf.c `#ifndef HAVE_LAZPERF` early-return guards stay
+# active and no liblazperf symbols are referenced). POINTCLOUD_VERSION
+# is pointcloud-pg/Version.config = 1.2.5.
+file(WRITE "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/pc_config.h"
+"/* #undef LIBXML2_VERSION */
+
+/* #undef PGSQL_VERSION */
+
+/* #undef HAVE_LAZPERF */
+
+/* #undef HAVE_CUNIT */
+
+#define PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR \"${POINTCLOUD_DIR}\"
+
+#define POINTCLOUD_VERSION \"1.2.5\"
+")
+
+# Build the libpc.a archive target directly (NOT `all`, which recurses
+# into cunit/ and needs CUnit). config.mk is included by lib/Makefile.
+vcpkg_execute_required_process(
+    COMMAND make -C "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib" libpc.a
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib"
+    LOGNAME "build-libpc-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
+)
+
+# pgPointCloud's lib/stringbuffer.c is a verbatim fork of PostGIS
+# liblwgeom/stringbuffer.c (identical stringbuffer_t layout, identical
+# stringbuffer_* signatures). MEOS already bundles liblwgeom — including
+# its stringbuffer.c — into libmeos.a, so carrying pgPointCloud's copy in
+# libpc.a as well makes the final static link fail with `multiple
+# definition of stringbuffer_*`. liblwgeom additionally exports only some
+# of these symbols out-of-line (stringbuffer_append / _append_char /
+# _append_double are header-only `static inline` there), so simply
+# dropping pgPointCloud's stringbuffer.o leaves its callers with
+# unresolved stringbuffer_append. Instead, rename every stringbuffer_*
+# symbol in libpc.a — definitions and the cross-object references in
+# pc_point.o / pc_schema.o / pc_dimstats.o / pc_patch_uncompressed.o — to
+# a private pc_stringbuffer_* namespace. libpc.a then resolves these
+# entirely against its own copy and never collides with liblwgeom.
+vcpkg_execute_required_process(
+    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E env bash -c
+        "set -e
+         cd '${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib'
+         : > redefine.map
+         for s in $(nm libpc.a 2>/dev/null | awk '$NF ~ /^stringbuffer_/ {print $NF}' | sort -u); do
+           echo \"$s pc_$s\" >> redefine.map
+         done
+         tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+         cd \"$tmp\"
+         ar x '${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/libpc.a'
+         for o in *.o; do
+           objcopy --redefine-syms='${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/redefine.map' \"$o\"
+         done
+         rm -f '${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/libpc.a'
+         ar rcs '${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/libpc.a' *.o
+         cd /
+         rm -rf \"$tmp\" '${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/redefine.map'"
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib"
+    LOGNAME "namespace-libpc-stringbuffer-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
+)
+
+# meos/src/pointcloud/CMakeLists.txt checks exactly this path.
+if(NOT EXISTS "${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/libpc.a")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR
+        "pgPointCloud enabler failed: ${POINTCLOUD_DIR}/lib/libpc.a "
+        "was not produced by the libpc.a make target.")
+endif()
+
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
     SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
     OPTIONS
@@ -54,6 +175,7 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
         -DNPOINT=ON
         -DPOSE=ON
         -DRGEO=ON
+        -DPOINTCLOUD=ON
         -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
         -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-Dsession_timezone=meos_session_timezone"
         -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-Dsession_timezone=meos_session_timezone"
@@ -63,6 +185,18 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
 vcpkg_cmake_build(TARGET all)
 vcpkg_cmake_install()
 
+# meos/src/pointcloud/CMakeLists.txt links libpc.a into the `pointcloud`
+# OBJECT library with target_link_libraries(... PRIVATE libpc.a xml2 z).
+# That is only a usage requirement: the static libmeos.a archive does
+# not absorb libpc.a's objects nor carry a link interface, so a consumer
+# linking the static libmeos.a sees unresolved pc_point_get_x/y/z/...
+# Install libpc.a alongside libmeos.a and propagate it (plus libxml2 and
+# zlib) through the MEOS::meos imported target's INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES
+# so the extension link resolves the pgPointCloud symbols — mirroring the
+# canonical POINTCLOUD_LINK_LIBS = libpc.a xml2 z.
+file(INSTALL "${SOURCE_PATH}/pointcloud-pg/lib/libpc.a"
+     DESTINATION "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/lib")
+
 file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/meos")
 file(WRITE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/meos/MEOSConfig.cmake" [=[
 # Minimal imported target for MEOS
@@ -87,6 +221,24 @@ if (NOT TARGET MEOS::meos)
     IMPORTED_LOCATION "${_meos_lib}"
     INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../include"
   )
+  # When MEOS was built with -DPOINTCLOUD=ON, libmeos.a calls into the
+  # pgPointCloud archive libpc.a (and libxml2 / zlib). The static
+  # libmeos.a does not carry that link interface, so propagate it here.
+  set(_meos_libdir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../../lib")
+  if (EXISTS "${_meos_libdir}/libpc.a")
+    set(_meos_pc_iface "${_meos_libdir}/libpc.a")
+    file(GLOB _meos_xml2 "${_meos_libdir}/libxml2.a" "${_meos_libdir}/libxml2.lib")
+    file(GLOB _meos_zlib "${_meos_libdir}/libz.a" "${_meos_libdir}/libzlib.a" "${_meos_libdir}/zlib.lib")
+    if (_meos_xml2)
+      list(APPEND _meos_pc_iface ${_meos_xml2})
+    endif()
+    if (_meos_zlib)
+      list(APPEND _meos_pc_iface ${_meos_zlib})
+    endif()
+    set_target_properties(MEOS::meos PROPERTIES
+      INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "${_meos_pc_iface}"
+    )
+  endif()
 endif()
 ]=])
 
diff --git a/vcpkg_ports/meos/vcpkg.json b/vcpkg_ports/meos/vcpkg.json
index 22bd9c3..6e2e209 100644
--- a/vcpkg_ports/meos/vcpkg.json
+++ b/vcpkg_ports/meos/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "meos",
     "version-string": "git",
-    "port-version": 1,
+    "port-version": 2,
     "description": "MEOS - Mobility Engine Open Source C library (built from MobilityDB with -DMEOS=ON)",
     "homepage": "https://libmeos.org/",
     "dependencies": [
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
       "geos",
       "proj",
       "json-c",
-      "gsl"
+      "gsl",
+      "libxml2",
+      "zlib"
     ]
   }
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