Creating a COM/OLE server

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

I've perused the documentation of Win32::OLE, but it mentions nothing about creating your own COM/OLE servers. How can I prove to my colleague that this can indeed be done using Perl? :)

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Re: Creating a COM/OLE server by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Feb 25, 2005 at 10:44 UTC
See the item on Windows Script Components in the ActivePerl documentation. Also you might want to see the MSDN Documents on the subject. /J\	[reply]
Re: Creating a COM/OLE server by holli (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2005 at 10:39 UTC
You can´t. At least not with pure Perl. But there is the PerlDevKit from ActiveState, that contains PerlCtrl, a tool to write ActiveX-Dlls. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Creating a COM/OLE server by Anonymous Monk on Feb 26, 2005 at 04:24 UTC
Using Windows Script Components (WSC) you can put PerlScript inside *.wsc files, register them into the local COM registry, and then load up your Perl-COM components from anything else that can use COM. No compiling necessary. Take a look at ActiveState's description: http://www.xav.com/perl/Windows/windows_script_components.html	[reply]

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