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Hello. I am developing a Com DLL in Visual Studio 2003 .NET, more
specifically, using the Perl Dev Kit add on which allows me to compile
Perl 5 code into EXE, Services, and DLLs (using COM.)

In the example provided with the PDK, the Com Object is invoked (in a
sample vbScript) as so:

   Dim objMyControl
   Set objMyControl = CreateObject("My.Control")

This of course works only after running the `regsvr32 MyControl.dll` at
the command line.

So my question is, how do you load a COM dll in BCB (using BCB 5 Ent) ?

Also, is it possible ot load the DLL straight in the program without
having to register it with regsvr32?

If not, then what is the equivilent method for the VBS code above?

I really hope this can work because if I can access Perl function in
this way it will save me a lot of coding for a text processing
application i'm writing. I have a whole slew of routines writen in Perl
that handle the massive jobs with ease, so you can see why I wanted some
way to use them in my C++/Win32 applications.

P.S.

I found BCB to be a great app, always loaved it, but I could never for
thel ife of me understand why the VCL didn't include any RegEx? I know
about the PCRE Lib for C++, but if you've ever used RegEx in Perl 5, you
will groan in anguish looking at equivilent coding done with PCRE :-)

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Stan