Ability to statically build the module

[ymartin-ovh]

Maybe I'm doing my build wrong but I can't build an nginx with otel module statically linked in.
It would be nice if the build chain can support this mode too (addon).

Regards

[dplotnikov-f5]

Thank you for your feedback! At this point we do not support static linkage though we may add this in the future.

Would you mind sharing details why statically linking otel module is beneficial for case.

[ymartin-ovh]

Hello @dplotnikov-f5

Glad to hear that. We use in our infra a statically build of nginx,without loading module support, for security reason.

Regards

[osokin]

Maybe I'm doing my build wrong but I can't build an nginx with otel module statically linked in. It would be nice if the build chain can support this mode too (addon).

I do believe it's possible (at least on FreeBSD from the FreeBSD ports tree) with the following PR, #11