Ok, so with Threads the same problem exists:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Thread;
use Win32::OLE;
Win32::OLE->Option(Warn => 3);

my $thread = Thread->new(\&TEST_THREAD, ("arg1", "agr2"));
my $rc = $thread->eval;
print $rc;
print "\nI'm ending now.\n";

sub TEST_THREAD{
  my ($arg1, $arg2) = (@_);
  return "$arg1\t$arg2";
}

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Using threads does throw a more informative error to STDERR though, in addition to the null pointer exception:
Free to wr0ng pool lbaXXXX not XXXXXX during global destruction.
where XXXX and XXXXXX are both hex values.

So it looks like you were right about it being a problem with the global destructor...Is there no way to use Win32::OLE with a multi-threaded script?

I tried moving the use statement for Win32::OLE into TEST_THREAD without any success. If I comment out the use statement for Win32::OLE, the script runs without error.

In reply to Re^2: Win32::OLE and fork causes null pointer exception by jrsimmon
in thread Win32::OLE and fork causes null pointer exception by jrsimmon

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