diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml
index 0028a040268..e89036ec3ac 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yaml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ jobs:
           - "-DFLB_SIMD=On"
           - "-DFLB_SIMD=Off"
           - "-DFLB_ARROW=On"
+          - "-DFLB_COMPILER_STRICT_POINTER_TYPES=On"
         cmake_version:
           - "3.31.6"
         compiler:
@@ -71,6 +72,10 @@ jobs:
             compiler:
               cc: clang
               cxx: clang++
+          - flb_option: "-DFLB_COMPILER_STRICT_POINTER_TYPES=On"
+            compiler:
+              cc: clang
+              cxx: clang++
     permissions:
       contents: read
     steps:
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4cf122fd233..1059ddb8779 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ option(FLB_SMALL               "Optimise for small size"       No)
 set(FLB_SECURITY "ReleaseOnly" CACHE STRING "Build with security optimizations")
 set_property(CACHE FLB_SECURITY PROPERTY STRINGS "On;Off;ReleaseOnly")
 option(FLB_COVERAGE            "Build with code-coverage"      No)
+option(FLB_COMPILER_STRICT_POINTER_TYPES "Build with -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types" No)
 option(FLB_JEMALLOC            "Build with Jemalloc support"   No)
 option(FLB_REGEX               "Build with Regex support"     Yes)
 option(FLB_UTF8_ENCODER        "Build with UTF8 encoding support" Yes)
@@ -450,6 +451,17 @@ if(FLB_COVERAGE)
   set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "Debug")
 endif()
 
+if(FLB_COMPILER_STRICT_POINTER_TYPES)
+  if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "GNU|Clang|AppleClang")
+    add_compile_options(-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types)
+  endif()
+  # Currently, AppleClang has more struct rules when using -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types.
+  # We still permit to discarding const qualifiers warnings.
+  if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "AppleClang")
+    add_compile_options(-Wno-incompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers)
+  endif()
+endif()
+
 # Enable Debug symbols if specified
 if(MSVC)
   set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE None)  # Avoid flag conflicts (See CMakeList.txt:L18)