This is only a mirror of the original gzstream-library developed by The Computational Geometry Group at UNC Chapel Hill. For more information about this lib, see the cs.unc.ed homepage

to install please make sure you have zlib installed. In ubuntu its included in package zlib1g-dev.
Download the project or clone it with

git clone https://github.com/kanedo/gzstream.git

change into the dir

cd gzstream

now type

sudo make install

to install gzstream.

This will will compile the gzstream library, test it and install it to the folllowing locations:
/usr/include/gzstream.h
/usr/lib/libgzstream.a

To remove the library just use the make file and type

sudo make uninstall

To use the library with Make make sure you add -lgzstream and -lz to your LDFLAGS.

I get undefined reference to gzstream error:
make sure you add the LDFlags at the end