PostgreSQL on Tiger, Carbon

I need to connect to some device that has embedded PostgreSQL server in it from an application that needs to run on Tiger or newer Macs. All my application needs to do is open a connection, read some data from a single table and disconnect.

So, I don't really need complete PostgreSQL installation on my computer, just libraries and headers. I can't find such download, so I downloaded the whole source tree. Now, this needs me to run "configure" script and that is where I realized I am in over my head.

Can someone with some PostgreSQL experience point me to an example of how to call configure from terminal in order to build just c libraries? Or should I install the whole package, with sql server and all utilities?

 

Thanks,

then installing everything makes sense.

 

Thanks for suggestions and I am sorry if my original post wasn't clear enough because when I put the word "Carbon" in the title I thought that should be enough to describe the whole thing as "straight C project". I don't think jdbc drivers can be used from C?! Or maybe they could?

My application is built with Carbon in C and it needs to read the database several times a day and put the results into its own format. That is why I need to link it with libpq.a library built for PPC Mac running Tiger or above.