Perl Win32::OLE ADODB.Connection fails on Vista

[Reini Urban]

Tim Adye schrieb:
> I have been using the Cygwin Perl Win32::OLE module as a nice way to query
> Access databases [*]. This worked fine on Windows XP (32-bit), but no longer
> works on a new Vista (64-bit) machine. The initial connection
> 
>   $conn= Win32::OLE->new ('ADODB.Connection')
> 
> fails with
> 
>   Win32::OLE(0.1709) error 0x8007007e: "The specified module could not be
> found"
> 
> Connecting to some other OLE applications (eg. Excel.Application) works OK.
> The same ADODB script works fine from ActiveState Perl (at least for the
> 32-bit version; there is no 64-bit version of the Microsoft Access Driver,
> so ActiveState Perl x64 fails at the next step). However I'd prefer to use
> Cygwin Perl.
> 
> I upgraded Cygwin's Win32::OLE to the latest version (perl-5.10.0-5 comes
> with Win32::OLE 0.1703, while the latest ActiveState Perl has Win32::OLE
> 0.1709), but that didn't help.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Unfortunately I have no idea at all and no Win64 machine to test.
Can you ask at the libwin32 at perl.org mailing list?

The author jand is there and he also has a win64 machine.
But he has no cygwin :(
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