I doubt that Win32::API installs Win32::OLE (it certainly didn't the list time I checked).

I think that Win32::OLE comes with ActivePerl by default. I haven't installed a Perl v5.6.1 from ActiveState but Win32::OLE has certainly come with all of the previous versions of ActivePerl that I have installed.

Perhaps Banky should just check whether it is already installed before trying to find it to install?

$ perl -mWin32::OLE -e "print $Win32::OLE::VERSION"
0.13
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