issue with dynamic building: "no suitable image found"

[gWOLF3]

What happened?

followed instructions in readme - i included load_module modules/ngx_http_accounting_module.so; at the top level of my nginx.conf file, and added the downloaded .so file from releases in my /modules folder.

However, I run into an error "no suitable image found". Any ideas?

ENV: Im on a macbook, installed nginx with homebrew

Error:

nginx: [emerg] dlopen() "/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.17.8/modules/ngx_http_accounting_module.so" failed (dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.17.8/modules/ngx_http_accounting_module.so, 10): no suitable image found.  Did find:
    /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.17.8/modules/ngx_http_accounting_module.so: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x7F 0x45 0x4C 0x46 0x02 0x01 0x01 0x00
    /usr/local/Cellar/nginx/1.17.8/modules/ngx_http_accounting_module.so: unknown file type, first eight bytes: 0x7F 0x45 0x4C 0x46 0x02 0x01 0x01 0x00) in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1

[Lax]

It seems you're running nginx on macOS, you have to build it on macOS (the binary in downloads page was build on Linux)

General steps are:

1. download nginx source code from nginx.org
2. in nginx source code, ./configure with the same parameters from nginx -V output, and append --add-dynamic-module=/path/to/accounting-module
3. make modules
4. copy objs/ngx_http_accounting_module.so to your modules folder