Zlib

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Zlib is the standard (de)compression library. Many programs rely on it.

Typical errors[edit]

If your distribution did not install zlib for you during installation (CentOS, etc) then you may likely run into compile errors such as:

pp
g++ -o tracker_users.o -pthread -O2 -w -I.  -c tracker_users.cpp
g++ -o util.o -pthread -O2 -w -I.  -c util.cpp
g++ -o ./bnbt util.o -pthread -Lzlib/ -lz
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [bnbt] Error 1

The solution is to install zlib.

 yum install zlib-devel