c++ dynamic module fails to load

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 05:05:59AM -0400, astre wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I have a C++ module developed for apache HTTP which now Im trying to port to
> Nginx. For this I started reading about creating dynamic modules and
> specifically c++. I already found ngx_cpp_test_module.cpp in the source and
> able to compile it. I extended it a little and wrote a hello world program
> which compiles fine but when I restart Nginx I get following error:
> 
> [build at 8e269df38d20 nginx-1.16.1]$ sudo /usr/sbin/nginx -t
> nginx: [emerg] dlopen() "/etc/nginx/modules/ngx_http_cpp_hello_module.so"
> failed (/etc/nginx/modules/ngx_http_cpp_hello_module.so: undefined symbol:
> ngx_http_cpp_hello_module) in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:2
> 
> I have configured it as follows:
> 
> ./configure --with-cc-opt='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
> -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC' --with-ld-opt='-lstdc++
> -lrt -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIC' --prefix=/home/build
> --add-dynamic-module=/mnt/src/hello-world-cpp --with-threads
> 
> The config:
> 
> ngx_addon_name=ngx_http_cpp_hello_module
> 
> if test -n "$ngx_module_link"; then
>     ngx_module_type=HTTP
>     ngx_module_name=$ngx_addon_name
>     ngx_module_srcs="$ngx_addon_dir/ngx_http_cpp_hello_world_module.cpp"
> 
>     . auto/module
> else
>     HTTP_MODULES="$HTTP_MODULES ngx_http_hello_module"
>     NGX_ADDON_SRCS="$NGX_ADDON_SRCS
> $ngx_addon_dir/ngx_http_cpp_hello_world_module.cpp"
> fi
> 
> As per the error "undefined symbol: ngx_http_cpp_hello_module" Im trying to
> understand why it is trying to find that function in the code. 
> Is there something that I'm missing during configuring or compilation
> process?

That's the module name you've specified during build 
("ngx_module_name=$ngx_addon_name"), and hence this is the module 
structure nginx tries to find during loading.  Since there is no 
such structure, module loading fails.

If you are curios where the structure in question is referenced, 
check auto/module and auto/make files.

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Maxim Dounin
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