How to add custom library paths while compiling nginx from source code

[Ángel González]

On 05/02/16 18:56, Sebastian Tarach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to compile nginx from source code with xslt support.
> Unfortunately it fails on configure step because the script looks for
> libraries in standard directories.
> ---
> checking for libxslt ... not found
> checking for libxslt in /usr/local/ ... not found
> checking for libxslt in /usr/pkg/ ... not found
> checking for libxslt in /opt/local/ ... not found
>
> ./configure: error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt
> libraries. You can either do not enable the module or install the libraries.
> ---
> How can I provide the configure script with correct different library paths?

This depends on the autoconf configuration used by nginx. It's not 
suitable for gcc-help.
You should ask on one of its mailing lists instead: 
http://nginx.org/en/support.html


> Configuration I'm trying to use:
> ---
>   ./configure --prefix=/opt/nginx-1.9.9/conf
> (...)
> --with-zlib=/opt/src/nginx/zlib-1.2.8 --with-ld-opt="
> -I/opt/src/nginx/libxml-2.9.3 -I/opt/src/nginx/xslt-1.1.28"
I suspect you wanted -L here (search dir), not -I (which would set a 
dynamic linker)


Regards