Compilation fails in Centos 6.2 about libxlsxwriter HOT 5 CLOSED

Can you add a trace of the build failure.

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Hello, I'm not at the office until tomorrow.

I just remember that's not the library itself failing, but the minizip dependency, which in CentOS can be installed via yum.

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The Getting Started guide explains that zlib 1.2.8 is required. Did you install that?

Snippet:

Install the dependencies

Zlib version 1.2.8 is the only (non-testing) dependency.

The easiest way to install zlib is from the source code:

curl -O -L  http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
tar zxf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.8

./configure
make

sudo make install

On recent Debian Linux systems you can install the zlib development libraries using apt-get as follows:

sudo apt-get install -y zlib1g-dev

However, you need to ensure that the version is 1.2.8 or you will get zlib related compilation issues.

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I have no problems with Ubuntu.

In CentOS I have zlib-devel-1.2.3-29.el6.x86_64.

Will update to 1.2.8.

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Sorry, the issue is that Centos 6 has painfully old libraries.

It works fine with the manual zlib install.

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