I was trying to compile glib but it kept telling me this error
I tried stack overflow but it wasn't helpful.
Please help me!

Dell@Dell-PC MINGW64 ~/Desktop/glib-2.54.3
$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '197608' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '197121' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking minix/config.h usability... no
checking minix/config.h presence... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether it is safe to define _EXTENSIONS_... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-mingw64
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-mingw64
checking for Win32... yes
checking for the Android... no
checking for Mac OS X Carbon support... no
checking for Mac OS X Cocoa support... no
checking for windres... windres
checking for nm... nm
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for dlltool... dlltool
checking for lib.exe... no
checking whether to enable garbage collector friendliness... no
checking whether to disable memory pools... no
checking for c++... c++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of c++... gcc3
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... unknown
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... unknown
checking for pkg-config... no
checking how to get MSVC-compatible struct packing... -mms-bitfields
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... perl
checking for indent... indent
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.7... python
checking for python... /c/Python36/python
checking for python version... 3.6
checking for python platform... win32
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python3.6/site-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python3.6/site-packages
checking for ZLIB... no
checking for inflate in -lz... no
configure: error: *** Working zlib library and headers not found ***

I reinstalled Zlib binaries, even tried to build from source but everything failed.
I have zlib1.dll in my MinGW folder which is already in my system environment path.

you said

• "You say you're using MinGW, but from where?"

I have installed TDM-GCC-32 and I have installed autotools separately and latest version of make.

I am using zlib from this link https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/zlib/1.2.3/zlib-1.2.3-src.zip/download?use_mirror=excellmedia&download=

yes my env path is MinGW/bin

I have attached some files, please tell me what to do?

I am building glib for libiohook, I couldn't find any other good hooking library,
please tell me if you know some!

zlib 1.2.3 is 8 versions older than 1.2.11. 1.2.11 is the version I'm using and I have no problems building it.

Just use CMake for Zlib, using cmake-gui.

It's as easy as :

cd zlib
mkdir build
cd build
cmake-gui ..
(configure cmake and generate makefiles)
mingw32-make
mingw32-make install

You'll need to change the install directory inside cmake-gui, because it defaults to Program Files, which is ridiculous.

What are you using hooking for? Low level hooks usually aren't necessary. And there are far easier ways to write a keylogger.

I am sure there are working solutions out there already, so unless you're under contract to do this, it seems silly to write one from scratch. Do some googling for real time network monitoring. I'm sure there's software out there for this already.

But do what you want.

Don't post your configure file, I don't want that thing. I said earlier, you need to install zlib to your compiler directory's lib and include folders. Then configure will find it.

Also, when you run configure, pass --prefix=/c/mingw and then libiohook and glib will be installed to your compiler directory for you.

What do you mean 'found' them? Vagueness is the bane of the internet. Are they ones you built yourself? Or did you download them from somewhere? They have to be compatible with your compiler or else they won't work.

So, install them. *.a files go in mingw/lib and includes go in mingw/includes.

Thanks for your help, now I'm looking for some tutorial to autoconf.
Thnks for MSYS suggestion. I have MSYS2 but never used it, now I'm going to.

Now I have checked it, and installed it.
Lets see if it works.

Last update July 2015!