Compilation error - missing zlib.h

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didymos picture didymos · Aug 9, 2013 · Viewed 114.9k times · Source

I am trying to compile software on Blue Gene Q using IBM XL compilers and I got this error message:

"iostreams/zlib.cpp", line 19.10: 1540-0836 (S) The #include file "zlib.h" is not found.
make[3]: *** [zlib.o] Error 1

I have installed a new version of zlib and updated LD_LIBRARY_PATH with $HOME/zlib/include

Am I missing something?

Answer

kenorb picture kenorb · Jul 9, 2016

You are missing zlib.h header file, on Linux install it via:

sudo apt-get install libz-dev

As a matter of fact, the module presents as zlib1g-dev in the apt repo, so this is the up-to-date call (Feb 2019):

sudo apt install zlib1g-dev

On Fedora: sudo dnf install zlib-devel (in older versions: sudo dnf install libz-devel).

This will provide the development support files for a library implementing the deflate compression method found in gzip and PKZIP.

If you've already zlib library, make sure you're compiling your code sources with -lz. See: How to fix undefined references to inflate/deflate functions?.

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