Building nginx for macOS without homebrew

Makefile

# default target so running 'make' by itself wll download and build nginx
build: nginx
	cd nginx && ./configure --with-pcre=../pcre2 && make

nginx: pcre2
	curl -O https://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.21.6.tar.gz
	tar -xzvf nginx-*.tar.gz
	mv nginx-*/ nginx
	rm nginx-*.tar.gz

pcre2:
	curl -OL https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/releases/download/pcre2-10.40/pcre2-10.40.tar.gz
	tar -xzvf pcre2-*.tar.gz
	mv pcre2-*/ pcre2
	rm pcre2-*.tar.gz

# clean removes files used to build nginx to allow for a fresh build
clean:
	rm -rf nginx* *.tar.gz pcre2*

# install requires elevated permissions and installs to the default /usr/local/nginx
install: build
	cd nginx && sudo make install

# some handy symlinks
symlinks:
	ln -s /usr/local/nginx/logs/access.log access.log
	ln -s /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf nginx.conf
	ln -s /usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log error.log

# purge will stop nginx and remove everything created when installing
purge: clean
	rm -f *.log nginx.conf
	sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s quit
	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/nginx

# backup makes a copy of nginx.conf
backup:
	cp /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf backup.nginx.conf

# restore puts the backup of nginx.conf back into place
restore:
	sudo cp backup.nginx.conf /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

start:
	sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

stop:
	sudo /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -s quit