Cmake can not find ZLIB on Ubuntu 20.04

Question

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on Windows Subsystem for linux. Cmake is version 3.16.3. I am trying to build a project with a zlib dependency, and I get the following error...

 Could NOT find ZLIB (missing: ZLIB_LIBRARY) (found version "1.2.11")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:393 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindZLIB.cmake:115 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:1224 (find_package)

The line of code referenced in the error is as follows...

find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED)

package zlib1g is installed. How can I rectify this?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

I met the same issue when built other libraries. Just install zlib1g-dev solved my problem.