zlib.h not found error

[Beirui Niu]

Describe the bug
An error occured while making nextPolish installed.

Error message
mkdir /data/home/assembly/software/NextPolish/bin
make -C util;
make[1]: Entering directory /data/home/assembly/software/NextPolish/util' gcc -Wall -O3 -s -pthread -o seq_split seq_split.c thpool.c -lz seq_split.c:5:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory #include <zlib.h> ^ compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [seq_split] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory /data/home/assembly/software/NextPolish/util'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Operating system
Which operating system and version are you using?
You can use the command lsb_release -a to get it.

GCC
gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44) (GCC)

Python
Python 3.12.0

NextPolish
nextPolish v1.4.1

[Hu Jiang]

see here