I've recently translated some OLE code from vbs to perl and in most cases it went quite well. The following however I can't get working. vbs-code:
Dim pcbApp
Set pcbApp = GetObject(, "MGCPCB.ExpeditionPCBApplication")
Dim pcbDoc
Set pcbDoc = pcbApp.ActiveDocument

Dim key
key = pcbDoc.Validate(0)
Dim licenseServer
Set licenseServer = CreateObject("MGCPCBAutomationLicensing.Applicatio
+n")
Dim licenseToken
licenseToken = licenseServer.GetToken(key)

msgbox licenseToken

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translated like this: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

my $pcbApp;
eval {$pcbApp = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('MGCPCB.ExpeditionPCBAppli
+cation')};
die "Expedition not installed" if $@;
die "Expedition not running"   unless defined $pcbApp;
my $pcbDoc = $pcbApp->ActiveDocument;
die "No active document." unless $pcbDoc;

my $key = $pcbDoc->Validate(0);
my $licenseServer = Win32::OLE->new('MGCPCBAutomationLicensing.Applica
+tion');
die "Automation license acquisition failed: " . Win32::OLE::LastError(
+) unless defined $licenseServer;

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The vbs code runs and displays the licenseToken at the end. The perl code fails with 
Automation license acquisition failed: Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x8007
+007e: "The specified module could not be
found"

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Using 'CreateObject' instead of 'new' doen't change anything (from the docs I expect them to be equivalent). Any idea how to track down the source of this error?

Wolfram

In reply to Win32::OLE -- translation from vbs to pl by whumann

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