Win32::OLE only works on Win32, as OLE is one of the core services provided by the Windows API. Without understanding the differences involved here, you don't have much hope of succeeding in any way here.

What you could do is to emulate the RPC calls of Win32/NT, from what I remember, this is pretty standard RPC, and use DCOM to automate the Win32 Applications from a second machine. But DCOM is only COM and not completely OLE, so you're setting yourself up for lots of pain here. A second solution would be to install Perl on the Win32 machine and just use that. Not much pain involved here. You also could use the Openoffice.org automation, but their document model is horribly broken and really ugly to use.

In reply to Re: Win32::OLE, TPJ#10, linux by Corion
in thread Win32::OLE, TPJ#10, linux by Anonymous Monk

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