Relationship between libz and libmysqlclient libraries

[John Ling]

I notice that, while building C applications that use the libmysqlclient 
library, I sometimes need to link with libz library, depending on which 
system I am compiling on.

The different systems have different mysql versions installed, so is 
this due to the difference in the versions?

Can someone explain, generally, what functions in libmysqlclient, make 
use of the libz library and why?  And was libz, then, not required in 
older versions in the past?

Thanks,
John
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