This project provides some common tools for Nginx module development. cd /path/to/some/module # generate short-name symlinks for src/ngx_http_*.[ch] ngx-links src # build a custom nginx 1.0.5 (with cache) ngx-build 1.0.5 \ --add-module=`pwd` \ --with-debug \ <other nginx configure options go here> export PATH=`pwd`/work/nginx/sbin:$PATH nginx -V # build a custom nginx 1.0.5 (without cache) ngx-build -f 1.0.5 \ --add-module=`pwd` \ --with-debug \ <other nginx configure options go here>