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Auto-discovery of compiled libraries for OpenSSL, PCRE and Zlib when used in Nginx
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Auto-discovery of compiled libraries for OpenSSL, PCRE and Zlib when used in Nginx

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vision5/ngx_auto_lib
• Owner: vision5
• Created: 2010-10-06T00:37:33.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-01-27T17:47:34.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-04T22:57:16.950Z (3 months ago)
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• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 22
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        

Nginx Auto Lib Module

=====================

New Repo Location

=================

The new location for this repo is :

https://github.com/simplresty/ngx_auto_lib

This old location was :

https://github.com/simpl/ngx_auto_lib

This is one of a number of Nginx modules that have been moved from 'simpl' to 'simplresty'.

See [below](#see-also) for more information on how these organizations are now used.

To prevent any problems with updates, all repos that were previously under the 'simpl' user

will be forked and synced from the 'simplresty' repo. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

Description

===========

This module searches for compiled versions of OpenSSL (including MD5 and SHA1),

PCRE and Zlib so that if they are required for an Nginx compilation and compiled

versions are available, then the pre-compiled versions are used rather than

re-compiling new ones each time Nginx is built.

It also has a highly flexible and extensible system for searching for libraries,

which can include both source and installation directories. This can make the

overall process of including external libraries in Nginx compilations easier,

especially when custom compilations of libraries are used.

Installation

============

The module can be added like any other, but it MUST BE THE LAST ADDON MODULE,

since it checks values set by other modules to determine whether or not libraries

are required.

[set variables if desired]

./configure [other config options] --add-module=/path/to/ngx_auto_lib

Setting variables to control where libraries are found

======================================================

Auto Lib has a more flexible configuration system for determining where libraries

are found than the core Nginx distribution. See README_AUTO_LIB under the user

section for more details.

In that file :

PFX ::= MD5 | OPENSSL | PCRE | SHA1 | ZLIB

Notes for module developers

===========================

The majority of the work done by this module is in the ngx_auto_lib_core file,

which is a generic library handler for Nginx modules. Any module developers that

require external libraries for their modules are encouraged to include this file

in their module's config file rather than defining their own config files from

scratch. Even if you have already written config files that include searches for

libraries, you are encouraged to include this file to replace your existing

implementation because it will likely provide more flexibility to the end user

and may be more robust.

See the developers section of the README_AUTO_LIB for more details.

Known issues

============

- does not work correctly with paths that include spaces

- incomplete documentation

To do

=====

- check that reordering of mail modules in OpenSSL config file does not cause problems

License

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    BSD

Copright

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    2010 (c) Marcus Clyne