Does Win32-Ole work under cygwin

lupey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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I do all my Perl programming under Cygwin on WinXP. Now, I need to parse Excel documents with Win32-Ole. Before I start, does anybody know if Win32-Ole will work under Cygwin? Are there any restrictions that I should know about? I didn't see any in the Win32-Ole documentation.

My first goal is to write a script that will output an Excel document as tab-delimited text. I want exactly the same output you would get as if you saved the Excel document manually "as text".

Thank you

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Re: Does Win32-Ole work under cygwin by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 23, 2007 at 13:27 UTC
..does anybody know if Win32-Ole will work under Cygwin? Not entirely sure ... but I think Win32::OLE is part of libwin ... and I think there's a Cygwin build of libwin available. That being the case, there should be a Win32::OLE that works under Cygwin. (Look for 'libwin' in the available Cygwin perl binaries.) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: Does Win32-Ole work under cygwin by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 23, 2007 at 14:26 UTC
It should. If not, it's a bug. Emulation of unix system calls (i.e. cygwin) shouldn't affect OLE at all.	[reply]
Re^2: Does Win32-Ole work under cygwin by lupey (Monk) on Oct 23, 2007 at 14:50 UTC
Thank you for the replies...I found the cygwin package. It is called 'perl-libwin32'. Now its time to code.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Does Win32-Ole work under cygwin by Anonymous Monk on Jul 26, 2013 at 13:50 UTC
Hi Does this answer still apply under Perl 5.14 ? Below post suggests - possibly not http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-win32-users@listserv.activestate.com/msg24459.html But it's worth asking as I need Win32::OLE working for a project I am really keen on, and I think this would be the easiest (possibly the only) way to do it. Thanks kubbs	[reply]