A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library

General Information

The HLRN system does not meet the requirements of some software and a separate zlib-library is provided.

Read more on the vendor pages.

Version	Compiler	Build date	Installation Path	modulefile
1.2.11	gcc-8	22-jan-2020	`/sw/tools/zlib/<version>`	zlib/gcc.8/1.2.11
1.2.13	gcc-9	28-jul-2023	`/sw/tools/zlib/<version>`	zlib/gcc.8/1.2.13
1.2.13	intel-22	28.-jul-2023	`/sw/tools/zlib/<version>`	zlib/intel.22/1.2.13

For some more information consult the man-page.

Usage at HLRN

Load the modulefile

$ module load zlib

This provides access to the script pkg-config that can be used to explore details of the library installation. The environment variable LD_RUN_PATH is set to make linking with rpath easy.

Building zlib

Installation includes

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load a compiler module file
run configure. Use --prefix=<install_path>.
run make, make test and make install.

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