How do you return a Hash from a perl dll created by perl Ctrl? Been using dlls for months in production, return of a numeric or text works fine. TypeLib Snippet 
    Methods => {
        'New' => {                        RetType => VT_DISPATCH,
        TotalParams => 1,
        NumOptionalParams => 0,
        ParamList => [
                cm    => VT_DISPATCH ]
                },
        'readDirectory' => {RetType => VT_VARIANT,
                              TotalParams => 1,
                    NumOptionalParams => 0,
                    ParamList => [                        dir => VT_BS
+TR ]
                },
                
},  # end of 'Methods'

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snippet of dll code. 
sub readDirectory
{
 my $self = shift;
 my %rlist;
 $rlist{"file1"} = '1';
 $rlist{"file1"} = '2';
 return \%rlist;
}

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Calling program $Lista returns "Win32::OLE" 
 my $Lista = $obj->readDirectory("txt");
    %List = %$Lista; ???????????????????????????

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In reply to Return hash from a com object. ? by cdlvj

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