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Date:      Tue, 24 Sep 2002 07:22:16 +0200
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OLE in ports?
Message-ID:  <3D8FF688.6852D9C3@liwing.de>
References:  <20020922231107.A56002@skytrackercanada.com> <20020923091348.GB4587@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>

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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:11:07PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
> > I am running a perl application and it is asking for OLE.pm;
> >
> > Can't locate Win32/OLE.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at ./lecxe.pl line 12.
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./lecxe.pl line 12.
> >
> > Is that available in the ports somewhere?
> 
> Unfortunately, the OLE stuff is Win32 specific, so I don't think
> you're going to have any luck at all in attempting to make your perl
> run under FreeBSD. See
> http://search.cpan.org/author/GSAR/libwin32-0.191/ and
> http://search.cpan.org/src/GSAR/libwin32-0.191/README

On the other hand you could implement the OLE interface for Unix
compatibles and clones... :-)

> > I saw the port;
> > p5-OLE-Storage_Lite, but when installed it doesn't seem to recognize it.
> 
> That's a very different animal to the Win32::OLE module I'm afraid. No
> good to you.
> 
>         Cheers,
> 
>         Matthew
>

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