diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 178ec84455..0da609f011 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1006,6 +1006,15 @@ version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "98cc8fbded0c607b7ba9dd60cd98df59af97e84d24e49c8557331cfc26d301ce"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cmake"
+version = "0.1.51"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fb1e43aa7fd152b1f968787f7dbcdeb306d1867ff373c69955211876c053f91a"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "codespan-reporting"
 version = "0.11.1"
@@ -2053,6 +2062,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5f54427cfd1c7829e2a139fcefea601bf088ebca651d2bf53ebc600eac295dae"
 dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
+ "libz-ng-sys",
  "miniz_oxide",
 ]
 
@@ -3916,6 +3926,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "libz-ng-sys"
+version = "1.1.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4436751a01da56f1277f323c80d584ffad94a3d14aecd959dd0dff75aa73a438"
+dependencies = [
+ "cmake",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "link-cplusplus"
 version = "1.0.9"
diff --git a/src/dfx/Cargo.toml b/src/dfx/Cargo.toml
index 284d59c345..3fd8b6aeb8 100644
--- a/src/dfx/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/dfx/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ path = "src/main.rs"
 [build-dependencies]
 backoff = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["futures", "tokio"] }
 bytes = "1"
-flate2 = { version = "1.0.11" }
+flate2 = { version = "1.0.11", default-features = false, features = [
+    "zlib-ng",
+] }
 hex = "0.4.3"
 reqwest.workspace = true
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }