Procedure entry point gzdirect could not be located in the dynamic link library - tensorflow

Question

I tried to run the below command
conda create --name tf_gpu tensorflow-gpu
and it throws the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\exceptions.py", line 1062, in call
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main.py", line 84, in _main
exit_code = do_call(args, p)
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\conda_argparse.py", line 82, in do_call
exit_code = getattr(module, func_name)(args, parser)
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\main_create.py", line 37, in execute
install(args, parser, 'create')
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\cli\install.py", line 116, in install
if context.use_only_tar_bz2:
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda\base\context.py", line 664, in use_only_tar_bz2
import conda_package_handling.api
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\api.py", line 12, in
from .tarball import CondaTarBZ2 as _CondaTarBZ2, libarchive_enabled
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_package_handling\tarball.py", line 11, in
import libarchive
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\libarchive__init__.py", line 1, in
from .entry import ArchiveEntry
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\libarchive\entry.py", line 6, in
from . import ffi
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\libarchive\ffi.py", line 27, in
libarchive = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libarchive_path)
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes__init__.py", line 434, in LoadLibrary
return self._dlltype(name)
File "C:\Users\alexk\Anaconda3\lib\ctypes__init__.py", line 356, in init
self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
OSError: [WinError 127] The specified procedure could not be found
and also a error window pops up saying:
The procedure entry point gzdirect could not be located in the dynamic link library C:\User\\Anaconda3\Library\bin\libxml2.dll

Answer 1

I am answering quite lately but I had a similar issue recently and this post was the closest to my issue (and had no answers).
The issue for me though was that I was trying to communicate with matlab from c++ code (using visual c++ in visual studio).
After searching a long time, I discovered that gzdirect came from zlib1.dll and not libxml.
What caused this issue for me was that I added the path to the matlab dlls at the end of my path environnment variable and because of that, a zlib from my system was used instead of Matlab Zlib.
All I had to do was to add the path to Matlab's DLL at the start of my path and not at the end.