usr bin ld cannot find -lz

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I am trying to compile Android source code under Ubuntu 10 04  I get an error saying       usr bin ld  cannot find -lz   Can you please tell me how can I fix it  What does cannot find -lz mean  Here s the full error message   external qemu Makefile android 1101  warning  overriding commands for target  external qemu android avd hw-config-defs h  external qemu Makefile android 933  warning  ignoring old commands for target  external qemu android avd hw-config-defs h  host SharedLib  libneo cgi  out host linux-x86 obj lib libneo cgi so   usr bin ld  skipping incompatible  usr lib gcc i486-linux-gnu 4 4 3          libz so when searching for -lz  usr bin ld  skipping incompatible  usr lib gcc i486-linux-gnu 4 4 3          libz a when searching for -lz  usr bin ld  skipping incompatible  usr lib libz so when searching for -lz  usr bin ld  skipping incompatible  usr lib libz a when searching for -lz  usr bin ld  cannot find -lz collect2  ld returned 1 exit status make       out host linux-x86 obj lib libneo cgi so  Error 1   And my GCC version output   scheung scheung-virtual-box  media EXTDIV mydroid  gcc --version gcc  Ubuntu 4 4 3-4ubuntu5  4 4 3 Copyright  C  2009 Free Software Foundation  Inc  This is free software  see the source for copying conditions   There is NO warranty  not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE    I already have the zlib1g-dev library installed     sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev  Reading package lists    Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information    Done zlib1g-dev is already the newest version     I get that from this link

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for opensuse 12 3  Dartmouth   i586  sudo zypper install zlib-devel zlib-devel-static

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This will show you clues about why the linker doesn t want the installed library   LD DEBUG all make       I had the same problem in a different context  my system  lib libz so 1 had unsatisfied dependencies on libc because I was trying to relink on a different version of the OS

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For x64 install zlib1g-dev  sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev  I don t need all the x86 libs

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I had the exact same error  Installing zlib-devel solved my problem  Type the command and install zlib package   On linux   sudo apt-get install zlib    On Centos   sudo yum install zlib

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I just encountered this problem and contrary to the accepted solution of  your make files are broken  and  host includes should never be included in a cross compile   The android build includes many host executables used by the SDK to build an android app  In my case the make stopped while building zipalign  which is used to optimize an apk before installing on an android device   Installing lib32z1-dev solved my problem  under Ubuntu you can install it with the following command   sudo apt-get install lib32z1-dev

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Another possible cause  You ve passed --static to the linker  but you only have a dynamic version of libz  libz so   but not a version that can be statically linked  libz a

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It means you asked it to include the library  libz a  or  libz so  containing a compression package  and although the compiler found some files  none of them was suitable for the build you are using   You either need to change your build parameters or you need to get the correct library installed or you need to specify where the correct library is on the link command line with a -L where it is lib type option

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Try one of  those three solution  It must work        sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev sudo apt-get install libz-dev sudo apt-get install lib32z1-dev   In fact what is missing is not the lz command  but the development files for the zlib library So you should install zlib1g-devlib for ex to get it   For rhel7 like systems the package is zlib-devel

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sudo apt-get install libz-dev in ubuntu

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I had the exact same error  and like you  installing zlib1g-dev did not fix it   Installing lib32z1-dev got me past it  I have a 64 bit system and it seems like it wanted the 32 bit library

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Others have mentioned that lib32z-dev solves the problem  but in general the required packages can be found here   http   source android com source initializing html See  Installing required packages

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