How to fix the error "Executable "zip" needed for creating OpenDocument files" when exporting Org mode document to OpenOffice?

Question

When I try to export an Org mode document to OpenOffice Document format, I get the following error:

This answer suggested to use 7zip. So I

1. installed 7zip,
2. copied 7z.exe and renamed the copy to zip.exe, and
3. added the path of 7zip (C:\Program Files\7-Zip) to exec-path (via M-x customize-variable RET exec-path RET).

But when I try to export my Org mode file to ODT with this setup, I get an error Incorrect command line, probably because 7zip uses different command line arguments than the zip program Org mode expects.

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Here is a short tutorial for all who want to use ODT export under Windows.

1. I downloaded :

zip and unzip

2. Extracted zip300xn.zip in a folder zip300xn and executed unz600xn.exe in a folder unz600xn

3. Put those two folders in C:\Program Files\zip300xn and C:\Program Files\unz600xn.

I set the exec-path variable as shown below using M-x customize-variable RET exec-path RET.

When I try to export an Org Mode document to OpenOffice.org, I get the following error:

Then I changed the paths in exec-path to the following:

Translation from German:

Command C:\Program is either spelled wrongly or could not be found.

Then I moved zip300xn and unz600xn to C:/EmacsInfrastructure and set the exec-path variable accordingly.

Still no luck: unzip.exe could not be found in C:/EmacsInfrastructure/zip300xn.

Copied unzip.exe and unzip.txt from EmacsInfrastructure\unz600xn to C:/EmacsInfrastructure/zip300xn.

Then it worked.