How to fix undefined references to inflate/deflate functions?

Question

I am trying to compile existing code provided in examples by zlib, but it is giving me error at the first place itself:

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Answer 1

You're getting a linker error because you haven't told the compiler to link the library that contains the functions that you've used. The usual way of compiling a simple program that uses zlib on Ubuntu would be:

gcc -o foo foo.c -lz