./configure: error: the HTTP XSLT module requires the libxml2/libxslt libraries

Question

I recently updated my mac-os to Mojave. I was using Nginx and it was working on my previous os but after updating to Mojave, I am not able to start my Nginx. So I tried to install it again, first, it gave me c compiler error, So I downloaded the Xcode command-line tools and it was gone. Now it gives me libxml2/libxslt libraries not found. I tried to install it using brew but I still get the same error. I am not sure what is going wrong.

I have downloaded libxml2 and libxslt using brew install.

My configure script.

./configure \
--prefix=/opt/nginx/$NGINX_NAME_VERSION \
--pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \
--conf-path=/etc/nginx/$NGINX_NAME_VERSION/conf/nginx.conf \
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log \
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log \
--lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock \
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/body \
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi \
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy \
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi \
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi \
--with-debug \
--with-http_addition_module \
--with-http_dav_module \
--with-http_geoip_module \
--with-http_gzip_static_module \
--with-http_realip_module \
--with-http_stub_status_module \
--with-http_ssl_module \
--with-http_sub_module \
--with-http_xslt_module \
--with-mail \
--with-mail_ssl_module \
--with-cc-opt=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include \
--with-ld-opt=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib \
--builddir=$NGINX_BUILD_PATH

Error :

checking for OpenSSL library ... found
checking for zlib library ... found
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

You can see it is able to find OpenSSL, zlib but not libxslt. Please someone help me to resolve the issue.

Answer 1

Try the following

sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev

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