Building from source error: The repository '@zlib' could not be resolved

[wangzhilong]

os: centos-7.6

when run
tools/run_in_docker.sh bazel build -c opt tensorflow_serving/...
failed.

ERROR

ERROR: /root/abc/serving/.cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/com_google_protobuf/BUILD:148:1: no such package '@zlib//': The repository '@zlib' could not be resolved and referenced by '@com_google_protobuf//:protobuf'
ERROR: Analysis of target '//tensorflow_serving/util:class_registration_test_proto_genproto' failed; build aborted: no such package '@zlib//': The repository '@zlib' could not be resolved
INFO: Elapsed time: 4.944s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (47 packages loaded, 426 targets configured)
    currently loading: @org_tensorflow//tensorflow/core

[rmothukuru]

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[luduling]

Compare a lot of BUILD files with "@zlib" in .cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/ directory, just modify the file /root/abc/serving/.cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/com_google_protobuf/BUILD by “ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib//:zlib"]” to ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib_archive//:zlib"]
I don't know why, but work

[wangzhilong]

Compare a lot of BUILD files with "@zlib" in .cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/ directory, just modify the file /root/abc/serving/.cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/com_google_protobuf/BUILD by “ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib//:zlib"]” to ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib_archive//:zlib"]
I don't know why, but work

@luduling thans. it's works for me.

[nrobeR]

This should be fixed now.

[gzpyy]

This should be fixed now.

@nrobeR I met the sample problem. Not yet fixed?

Compare a lot of BUILD files with "@zlib" in .cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/ directory, just modify the file /root/abc/serving/.cache/_bazel_root/2d09b9f1da03dc789cd67b59a4571350/external/com_google_protobuf/BUILD by “ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib//:zlib"]” to ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib_archive//:zlib"]
I don't know why, but work

this works for me.

[badele]

Today i have a same problem

I builind from docker (GCP Ubuntu 18.04 Host) with this command tools/run_in_docker.sh bazel build -c opt tensorflow_serving/...

I think since August this issue not fixed

[o-90]

same ☝️

[chengnignzhang]

I also have the same error, @badele did you already solve this problem?

[badele]

@chengnignzhang After spending some days, I gave up :)

[edias]

Did anybody found a solution for this issue?

I'm using Bazel and I'm getting /59500ca4bca19b28deb1169ec76b1fab/external/com_google_protobuf/BUILD:148:1: no such package '@zlib//': The repository '@zlib' could not be resolved and referenced by '@com_google_protobuf//:protobuf'

[badele]

@chengnignzhang @edias
I switched to tensorflow 2.0 I no longer have a build problem now :)

[372046933]

@badele I'm on TF 2.0 but still fails, yet @luduling 's solution still works.

[caren-guo]

I was trying to build tensorflow/serving 1.15 from the source (with a custom operation). Ran into the same issue but there seems to be a fix, here's what I did:

1. I cloned this repo and checked out to r1.15 and the build failed with this error.
2. Instead, I downloaded the source code from https://github.com/tensorflow/serving/archive/1.15.0.tar.gz and I'm not seeing this error.
3. I compared the above two directories by diff -r. They are identical, the only difference is the .git contained in the original github repo but not in the unzipped source code.
4. I removed .git from the repo and the build succeeded.

It's super weird and I have no idea what's going on but it might be helpful :)