How to fix fatal error: zlib.h: no such file or directory?

I'm trying to compile miniSAT on Kali Linux 64 bits but I keep getting the error message:

fatal error: zlib.h: no such file or directory

I have read that there might be a linking problem that makes the compiler unable to find the header files, but I'm new to Linux and do not know how to solve that.

2 Answers

You should install the development support files for zlib, try:

sudo apt-get install libz-dev

^{Other package names: zlib1g-dev.}

If you've already zlib library, make sure you're compiling your code sources with -lz. See: missing zlib.h in ubuntu.

Install zlib from it's source, solve my similar error. Download last version from this then:

configure
make -j4
make install