sebastian.titz@unina.it writes:

> Hello,
>
> I tried the new org-odt exporter in org-mode 7.6 running emacs 23.3
> on Windows 7 with (org-export-as-odt). It stops before generating an
> output with the error message: Searching for program: no such file or
> directory, zip. I guess it is caused by not having a command line
> version of zip in Windows.

The simple patch below tries to check for availability of zip very early
in the export.