diff --git a/ports/hpx/CONTROL b/ports/hpx/CONTROL
index 9c39aa2e1e..df2660cf2b 100644
--- a/ports/hpx/CONTROL
+++ b/ports/hpx/CONTROL
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Source: hpx
 Version: 1.5.1
+Port-Version: 1
 Build-Depends: hwloc, boost-accumulators, boost-algorithm, boost-asio, boost-bimap, boost-config, boost-context, boost-dynamic-bitset, boost-exception, boost-filesystem, boost-iostreams, boost-lockfree, boost-program-options, boost-range, boost-spirit, boost-system, boost-throw-exception, boost-variant, boost-winapi
 Homepage: https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx
 Description: The C++ Standards Library for Concurrency and Parallelism
diff --git a/ports/hpx/portfile.cmake b/ports/hpx/portfile.cmake
index 9f671b2574..f06dcacdb9 100644
--- a/ports/hpx/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/hpx/portfile.cmake
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ foreach(CMAKE_FILE IN LISTS CMAKE_FILES)
     file(WRITE ${CMAKE_FILE} "${_contents}")
 endforeach()
 
+vcpkg_replace_string(
+    "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}/HPXConfig.cmake"
+    "set(HPX_BUILD_TYPE \"Release\")"
+    "set(HPX_BUILD_TYPE \"\${CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE}\")")
+
 vcpkg_replace_string(
     "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/share/${PORT}/HPXMacros.cmake"
     "set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH \${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} \"\${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}\")"