ZLIB::ZLIB not found w/ self-built libraries; how to configure pre-built binary equivalent?

HDF5 Library
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Dear HDF experts!

Sorry for my frequent noises…

As I said before, now I’m developing a (hopefully portable) CMakeLists.txt file for our pure-Fortran project which partly depends on the HDF5 library. It should be able to switch on/of static linking for a reason.

At present, thanks to the precompiled HDF5 binaries hdf5-1.14.6-win-vs2022_intel.msi and hdf5-1.14.6-ubuntu-2404_intel.tar.gz, it works (=static linking can be switch on and off) on windoze and Ubuntu w/ Intel Fortran compiler.
It works also with distro-packaged HDF5 libraries on Ubuntu 24.04 (libhdf5-fortran-102t64 (1.10.10+repack-3.1ubuntu4), gfortran ver.13) and Fedora 42 (hdf5 (1.14.6-3.fc42), gfortran ver.15).
But I think gfortran-15 has a bug in allocatable character array and it can’t be used for our project at present. Therefore, at least on recent Fedora machines I have to build HDF5 library by myself with Intel Compiler or older versions of gfortran.

The build of the HDF5 libraries using CMake with either of the above compilers (with /usr/lib64/libz.a, /usr/local/lib64/libaec.a, and /usr/local/lib64/libsz.a installed on the system) was finished more or less successfully and they were installed with the resultant(cpack) shell script . With the self-built HDF5 libralies, the same CMakeLists.txt also works when dynamically linking, but does NOT work for statical linking. When configuring static linking, CMake complains that:

CMake Error at /home/furutaka/work/HDF5/hdf5-1.14.6-bld-serial-cmake-gf14/HDF_Group/HDF5/1.14.6/cmake/hdf5-targets.cmake:59 (set_target_properties):
  The link interface of target "hdf5-static" contains:

    ZLIB::ZLIB

  but the target was not found.  Possible reasons include:

    * There is a typo in the target name.
    * A find_package call is missing for an IMPORTED target.
    * An ALIAS target is missing.

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /home/furutaka/work/HDF5/hdf5-1.14.6-bld-serial-cmake-gf14/HDF_Group/HDF5/1.14.6/cmake/hdf5-config.cmake:175 (include)
  /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindHDF5.cmake:513 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:76 (find_package)

Could some experts teach me why/how this occurs, please? How can I fix/resolve this?

By adding find_package(ZLIB REQUIRED) and find_package(libaec CONFIG) in CMakeLists.txt, the CMake configuration finishes without the complaint, but even with set(ZLIB_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON) and set(libaec_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON) these libraries are dynamically linked…

How can I configure and build the library which works in the same/equivalent way as hdf5-1.14.6-ubuntu-2404_intel.tar.gz, which contains libaec.a, libszaec.a and libzlib-static.a in it?

Thanks in advance…
Kazuyoshi

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I think I’ve done by following the procedure described in

========================================================================
II. Quick Step Building HDF5 Libraries with CMake Script Mode
========================================================================

of release_docs/INSTALL_CMake.txt

By the way, I think we shoud NOT change directory in step 3.,

   3. Change to the source directory "hdf5-1.14.x".
      CTestScript.cmake file should not be modified.

because in the first step,

========================================================================
I. Preconditions
========================================================================
Obtaining HDF5 source code
   1. Create a directory for your development; for example, "myhdfstuff".

   2. Obtain HDF5 source from Github
         development branch:  https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5
         last release:        https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/releases/latest
             hdf5-1_14_"X".tar.gz or hdf5-1_14_"X".zip

      and put it in "myhdfstuff".
      Uncompress the file. There should be a hdf5-1.14."X" folder.

and we’re now in the myhdfstuff directory

   1. Change to the development directory "myhdfstuff".

   2. Download/copy the individual files mentioned above to "myhdfstuff".
      Do not uncompress the tar.gz files.

and there we should have hdf5-1.14.6 directory and CTestScript.cmake, HDF5config.cmake, and HDF5options.cmake.

Kazuyoshi