Configure Error Package Requirements — -zlib- Were Not Met

So you backtrack. You run apt-get install zlib1g-dev or brew install zlib . You link it manually. You set PKG_CONFIG_PATH . You learn the hard way that foundations aren’t optional.

And here’s the part the error message doesn’t tell you: You can’t always see what’s missing until you try to build something real. configure error package requirements -zlib- were not met

Because nothing real configures until the invisible dependencies are honored. So you backtrack

You can have all the advanced features in the world. But if zlib isn’t met, nothing configures. configure error package requirements -zlib- were not met