Having problems to compile with zlib

[Sirius]

I'm using Ubuntu and eclipse, i'm stuying the routins to compress and decompress with zlib but I cant compile an example, I installed zlib by this way

wget http://www.zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
tar -xvzf zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
zlib-1.2.5
sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zlib
sudo make
sudo make install

I saw this googling how to install zlib.

I dont know how to link it to my proyect, I tried adding -lzlib.h and the path of the headers but it didnt work, the compiler shows me that cant find zlib.h, so I think that I installed zlib in a wrong directory but Im not sure

I am a noob with this kind of stuffs, I hope that someone can helpme

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[Salmon]

Since you are using Ubuntu you should probably install zlib using the package manager. Use the command

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sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

or search for it in the Software Center.

To link the zlib library to your executable use the following flag with gcc

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-lz

Make sure to include zlib.h in your source code.

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#include <zlib.h>

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[Sirius]

Since you are using Ubuntu you should probably install zlib using the package manager. Use the command

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sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

or search for it in the Software Center.

To link the zlib library to your executable use the following flag with gcc

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-lz

Make sure to include zlib.h in your source code.

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#include <zlib.h>

Yes, thank you, the problem was the instalation and the flag as you said

[m0skit0]

Yes, thank you, the problem was the instalation and the flag as you said

This is standard for C. You really should take a good book about C and read about libraries and static linking.