While working on PSWriteExcel on Ubuntu / Mac OS I've noticed that my -AutoFit method for ConvertTo-Excel was crashing. I couldn't reproduce same behavior on PowerShell Core on Windows so it must be something with how Ubuntu / Mac OS deals with it. The error I was getting:
Failed AutoFit with error message: Exception calling „AutoFitColumns” with „0” argument(s): „The type initializer for 'Gdip' threw an exception.”
It seems the issue is known and reported on GitHub. Until then… you need to work with workaround as below..
To fix this you need to run following commands and install or update libgdiplus.
apt install -y libc6-dev apt install -y libgdiplus
On Mac OS it's a almost the same with the difference of using brew
brew install mono-libgdiplus
After this little update.. no more errors
If you're working with Azure DevOps change required to Mac OS looks like this (surprisingly Ubuntu doesn't have this error)
jobs:
- job: Build_PS_Win2016
pool:
vmImage: vs2017-win2016
steps:
- powershell: |
Install-Module -Name Pester -Repository PSGallery -Force -SkipPublisherCheck
.\PSWriteExcel.Tests.ps1 -Verbose
displayName: 'Run Pester Tests'
- job: Build_PSCore_Ubuntu1604
pool:
vmImage: ubuntu-16.04
steps:
- script: |
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | sudo apt-key add -
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/16.04/prod.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y powershell
displayName: 'Install PowerShell Core'
- script: |
pwsh -c '.\PSWriteExcel.Tests.ps1'
displayName: 'Run Pester Tests'
- job: Build_PSCore_MacOS1013
pool:
vmImage: xcode9-macos10.13
steps:
- script: |
brew update
brew tap caskroom/cask
brew install mono-libgdiplus
brew cask install powershell
displayName: 'Install PowerShell Core'
- script: |
pwsh -c '.\PSWriteExcel.Tests.ps1'
displayName: 'Run Pester Tests'
If you're working with Travis updated .travis.yml looks like this which covers both Ubuntu and Mac OS
language: generic
matrix:
include:
- os: osx
osx_image: xcode9.1
before_install:
- brew update
- brew tap caskroom/cask
- brew install mono-libgdiplus
- brew cask install powershell
- os: linux
dist: trusty
sudo: required
addons:
apt:
sources:
- sourceline: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/14.04/prod trusty main
key_url: https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
packages:
- libc6-dev
- libgdiplus
- powershell
script:
- pwsh -c 'Install-Module Pester -Force -Scope CurrentUser; .\PSWriteExcel.Tests.ps1'
This post was last modified on 7 czerwca, 2025 11:43
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