Charm++ parallel programming system

["Adamantini Peratikou" <Adamantini.Peratikou AT port.ac.uk>]

Everything is built successfully.
using ubuntu amd64. with g++ installed but whenerver i am trying to make anything under BigNetSim/trunk i get the following error. I t had worked once for bluegene but i had to reinstall it and now i am keep getting the same error. i clean the installation.. any thoughts?


Thank you 
Amanda


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Fatal Error by charmc in directory /home/psycho/charm/BigNetSim/trunk/tmp
   Command g++ -m64 -m64 -rdynamic -g -Lstdc++ -o bigsimulator -L/home/psycho/charm/bin/../lib -I/home/psycho/charm/bin/../include /home/psycho/charm/bin/../lib/libldb-rand.o BgSim_sim.o FileWindower.o InitNetwork.o Mesh3D.o SLQ.o TCsim_sim.o densegraphmanager.o fatdgmanager.o fattreemanager.o hybridmanager.o hypercubemanager.o maxAvailBufferBubbleVc.o modDirectionOrderedNDTorus.o pgm.o util.o moduleinit25903.o -lconv-bigsim-logs -lm -lz -ltrace-projections -lmodulepose -lmodulecommlib /home/psycho/charm/bin/../lib/libmemory-default.o /home/psycho/charm/bin/../lib/libthreads-default.o -lck -lconv-cplus-y -lconv-core -lconv-util -lckqt -ldl -lmodulepose -lmodulecommlib -lm returned error code 1
charmc exiting...
make[1]: *** [all] Error 1