diff --git a/.github/workflows/populate_linux_sysroot.sh b/.github/workflows/populate_linux_sysroot.sh
index 0f3c1e74..13bf502b 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/populate_linux_sysroot.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/populate_linux_sysroot.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ cat > "${POPULATE_LINUX_SYSROOT_SCRIPT}" << EOF
 export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 apt-get update
-apt-get install -y build-essential
+apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev
 apt-get install -y lsb-release gnupg2 wget rsync
 
 echo "deb http://apt.llvm.org/\$(lsb_release -cs)/ llvm-toolchain-\$(lsb_release -cs)-19 main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/llvm.list
@@ -123,6 +123,12 @@ do-sync() {
 	exit \$?
 }
 
+# Create missing symlinks for development libraries
+ln -sf libz.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so 2>/dev/null || true
+ln -sf libz.so.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so 2>/dev/null || true
+ln -sf libz.so.1 /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so 2>/dev/null || true
+ln -sf libz.so.1 /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libz.so 2>/dev/null || true
+
 do-sync / /sysroot/
 EOF
 chmod +x "${POPULATE_LINUX_SYSROOT_SCRIPT}"