installing cx_freeze on ubuntu

Question

i have kubuntu 15.10 with python2.7 and python 3.4m installed if i install cxfreeze with sudo apt-get cx_freeze it is installed with no issues but the problem is when i compile my python modules the are compiled for python2.7 not python 3 So i am trying to build cx_freeze from source and i am facing this error when i run sudo python3 setup.py build

here's the error

adding base module named weakref 
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict
prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format
security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -Ibuild/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4
I/usr/include/python3.4m -c source/bases/Console.c -o
build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/source/bases/Console.o
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread build/temp.linux-x86_64
3.4/source/bases/Console.o -L/usr/lib/python3.4/config-3.4m-x86_64
linux-gnu -lpython3.4 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64
3.4/cx_Freeze/bases/Console -Xlinker -export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,
Bsymbolic-functions -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm -lrt -lexpat -L/usr/lib
-lz -lexpat -s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1'

Answer 1

Install zlib1g-dev : sudo apt install zlib1g-dev

then install cx_freeze for python: pip install cx_freeze

I've tried that on Ubuntu 18.04 and Python 3.6 and worked.

Answer 2

I had exactly the same problem. As suggested in this answer you just need to install the dependencies first:

pip3 install zlib1g-dev

Then sudo python3 setup.py build