in reply to Win32::OLE, TPJ#10, linux

I am not very sure, but as long as there exists WinE or Win4LIN, so you can even start MS-Office application under Linux, so it could be possible to easily adopt Win32::OLE for Linux.
But this task will require a bit patching of Win32::OLE.
I have experience with Win32 more than with Linux, so my advices from Linux side are weaker.

As another thought, you could try from another side: is there exist any other Linux software that will perform OLE actions from Linux? You could tie it with Perl et voila...

As a third thought, you could write Perl(win32) layer so it will communicate with Linux Perl and perform Win32::OLE commands by any given protocol (start with simple "eval" then grow to some kind of RPC or XML or something)

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Re^2: Win32::OLE, TPJ#10, linux
by hartwig (Sexton) on Sep 07, 2004 at 06:22 UTC
    Forget about win4lin ... I tried to write an Perl/Tk app, which worked under win32 as well as linux. So I gave win4Lin a chance (to emulate win98 under linux) - I had to 'reboot' win98 all the time ... I think it is supposed to work win word or excel quite all right but my experience with ole and tk is not too good.
      I hope you'll succeed this way, otherwise go and seek another wisdom here :)