Programming Tips - "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz" from C/C++ how can I fix this linker error?

Date: 2015jun26 OS: Linux Q. "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz" from C/C++ how can I fix this linker error? A. You need zlib-devel. On RedHat/Fedora/CentOS do this:
dnf install zlib-devel