[CentOS] building ngx_cache_purge module on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

Sat May 7 14:25:34 UTC 2022
Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net>

On 07/05/2022 16:04, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

Hi Kaushal,

> # 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.

Yes, you're missing basic knowledge on how to compile C programs. Look 
at the man page of "gcc" and figure out how to use the "-I" flag.

Regards,
Anand