libxlsxwriter
Creating Excel files with C and libxlsxwriter

Libxlsxwriter is a C library for creating Excel XLSX files.

(Sample code to create the above spreadsheet.)

libxlsxwriter

Libxlsxwriter is a C library that can be used to write text, numbers, formulas and hyperlinks to multiple worksheets in an Excel 2007+ XLSX file. It supports features such as:

  • 100% compatible Excel XLSX files.
  • Full Excel formatting.
  • Merged cells.
  • Defined names.
  • Autofilters.
  • Charts.
  • Data validation and drop down lists.
  • Conditional formatting.
  • Worksheet PNG/JPEG/GIF images.
  • Cell comments.
  • Support for adding Macros.
  • Memory optimization mode for writing large files.
  • Source code available on GitHub.
  • FreeBSD License.
  • ANSI C.
  • Works with GCC, Clang, Xcode, MSVC 2015, ICC, TCC, MinGW, MingGW-w64/32.
  • Works on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OS X, iOS and Windows. Also works on MSYS/MSYS2 and Cygwin.
  • Compiles for 32 and 64 bit.
  • Compiles and works on big and little endian systems.
  • The only dependency is on zlib.

This document explains how to use the libxlsxwriter library. See the following sections for more information: