Dear Pietro, zlib is the C compression library. You must have some version of libz.so installed in order to link againt it.
Regards, Tim On 12/15/2014 05:36 PM, Pietro Roversi wrote: > Dear all, > > I apologise for the dullness of the question, but I am struggling to compile > the fasta36 binary that I need to run MrBump: > > > emmaWT:/software/fasta-36.3.7/src> sudo make -f ../make/Makefile.linux64_sse2 > all > gcc -g -O -msse2 -o ../bin/fasta36 comp_mthr9.o work_thr2.o > pthr_subs2.o compacc2_t.o showbest.o build_ares.o re_getlib.o > mshowalign2_t.o htime.o apam.o doinit.o init_fa.o drop_nfa.o wm_align.o > calcons_fa.o scale_se.o karlin.o lgetlib.o lgetaa_m.o c_dispn.o ncbl2_mlib.o > lib_sel.o url_subs.o mrandom.o -lm -lz -lpthread > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [fasta36] Error 1 > > Googling for this -lz ld flag does not seem to hit anything immediately > relevant in the top pages. > > Please help! > > Pietro > > > Sent from my Desktop > > Dr. Pietro Roversi > Oxford University Biochemistry Department - Glycobiology Division > South Parks Road > Oxford OX1 3QU England - UK > Tel. 0044 1865 275339 > -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A
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