Building vmods

Introduction#

You don’t necessarily have to compile vmods if the binaries for them are already available for your platform. Both CentOS 6 and 7 can leverage COPR builds by Ingvar in order to install a collection of extra modules by Varnish Software: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ingvar/varnish51/

Compile and install a vmod

Installation of a vmod requires an installed version of Varnish Cache, including the development files. Requirements can be found in the Varnish documentation.

Source code is built with autotools:

sudo apt-get install libvarnishapi-dev || sudo yum install varnish-libs-devel
./bootstrap   # If running from git.
./configure
make
make check   # optional
sudo make install