[AWS] ld: cannot find -lz error when compiling AWS.

[Vincent Tourvieille]

Hi,

I am trying to compile a simple (non ssl) AWS-based program with gnat 3-15p
under Windows 2000, with the following project file:

project Debug is
  for Object_Dir use "object";
  for Main use ("hello");
  for Exec_Dir use ".";
  for Source_Dirs use 
   (".",
   "./aws-2.0p/src",
   "./aws-2.0p/soap",
   "./aws-2.0p/include",
   "./aws-2.0p/ssl",
   "./aws-2.0p/config");

end Debug;

Launching gnatmake -Pdebug.gpr,
I get the following output from the compiler:
(the current directory is c:\temp\abat\)
(all AWS files have compiled fine already by a previous call to
gnatmake -Pdebug.gpr)

gcc -c -o c:\temp\abat\object\hello.o -gnatA c:\temp\abat\.\hello.adb
gnatbind -x hello.ali
gnatlink -o c:\temp\abat\.\hello.exe hello.ali
ld: cannot find -lz
gnatlink: cannot call c:\PROGRA~1\GNAT\bin\gcc.exe
gnatmake: *** link failed.

A simple non AWS-based Ada program compiles and run successfully.

Any help in fixing this "cannot find -lz" error
is appreciated,
 
Regards,

Vincent