I am trying to control a Matlab COM server object from perl but am running into some problems. When I try to create the server object using the following code: 
$matlab = Win32::OLE->new('Matlab.Application') or die
"Oops\n";

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I get the error message: Win32::OLE(0.1008) error 0x80040111: "ClassFactory cannot supply requested class" Now the interesting thing is that if I try to launch Word I can create the COM object successfully. Also, I am pretty sure that when I tried a week ago I was able to also create the matlab COM server object successfully at least once. In OLE/COM Object Viewer I also get a similar error when I try to create an instance of matlab: CoGetClassObject failed. I tried reinstalling matlab multiple time to no avail. I looked at the registry entries and it seems like the registry keys that would be required to locate the matlab server are all there. What makes is stranger is that I was just able to create a matlab server object from C++ code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rich

In reply to Strange OLE ClassFactory cannnot supply requested class error by richz

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