CentOS - May 2022 - building ngx_cache_purge module on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

On 07/05/2022 15:01, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

Hi Kaushal,
> #gcc -o ngx_cache_purge_module ngx_cache_purge_module.c
> ngx_cache_purge_module.c:30:19: fatal error: nginx.h: No such file or
> directory
>   #include <nginx.h>
>                     ^
> compilation terminated.
> 
> # yum search nginx-devel
Try "yum search nginx" instead and examine its output. You'll find
your
answer.

Regards,
Anand

On Sat, May 7, 2022 at 7:03 PM Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
> On 07/05/2022 15:01, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>
> Hi Kaushal,
>
> > #gcc -o ngx_cache_purge_module ngx_cache_purge_module.c
> > ngx_cache_purge_module.c:30:19: fatal error: nginx.h: No such file or
> > directory
> >   #include <nginx.h>
> >                     ^
> > compilation terminated.
> >
> > # yum search nginx-devel
>
> Try "yum search nginx" instead and examine its output. You'll
find your
> answer.
>
> Regards,
> Anand
>
Hi,

# rpm -qil nginx-mod-devel-1.20.1-9.el7.x86_64 | grep nginx.h
/usr/src/nginx-1.20.1-9.el7/src/core/nginx.h
# ll /usr/src/nginx-1.20.1-9.el7/src/core/nginx.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 476 May 25  2021
/usr/src/nginx-1.20.1-9.el7/src/core/nginx.h
# ls
CHANGES  config  LICENSE  ngx_cache_purge_module.c  README.md  t  TODO.md
# ls -l
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel  1980 Dec 23  2014 CHANGES
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel   516 Dec 23  2014 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel  1424 Dec 23  2014 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel 51501 Dec 23  2014 ngx_cache_purge_module.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel  5090 Dec 23  2014 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 2 501 wheel    80 May  7 02:22 t
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 wheel   281 Dec 23  2014 TODO.md
#
# gcc -o ngx_cache_purge_module ngx_cache_purge_module.c
ngx_cache_purge_module.c:30:19: fatal error: nginx.h: No such file or
directory
 #include <nginx.h>
                   ^
compilation terminated.
#

It is unable to locate the header file. Please correct me if I am missing
something. Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Kaushal