Error in Pytorch wrapper

[prabhavag]

nvcc -arch=sm_60 -std=c++11 --use_fast_math -lineinfo -maxrregcount 128 -I .. wavenet_infer.cu ../matrix.cpp -lz -Xcompiler -fPIC -shared -o wavenet_infer.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:48: recipe for target 'wavenet_infer' failed
make: *** [wavenet_infer] Error 1

[prabhavag]

It compiles after removing -lz. I wonder which library is that?

[drobison00]

Its a compression library 'libz'. Installing 'zlibc', and 'zlib1g-dev' will resolve the issue.