Compiling third-party dynamic modules for NGINX and NGINX Plus

Editor – The blog post announcing the original version of dynamic module support (in NGINX open source 1.9.11, February 2016) redirects here. The build process described in that post has been deprecated.

This article is part of a two-part series on using third-party dynamic modules with NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus.

• This article provides step-by-step instructions for compiling third-party dynamic modules that can be loaded at runtime by NGINX Open Source or NGINX Plus.
• The second article provides guidance and tools for automatically building third-party dynamic modules for production environments. It explains how to create installable packages for third-party dynamic modules that include version dependency checking.

NGINX Open Source 1.11.5 and NGINX Plus Release R11 introduced binary compatibility for dynamic modules. This article explains how to compile third-party modules to work with NGINX Open in a development environment