From: Daniel Amelang <daniel.amelang@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T04:09:41+09:00
Subject: Re: wine and win32ole

You said you were interested in 'using wine to compile win32ole on
*nix' (first post), which is entirely different that 'trying to use
win32ole on *nix' (second post).

Anyways, assuming you want to make win32ole calls in a ruby script
running on *nix inside a wine install (whew!)...I have had success
with the following setup (that should be relavent to your question):

1) I installed wine (via codeweavers installer)
2) I installed ruby windows one-click installer into the wine environment
3) I installed windows office
4) I was able to make win32ole calls in ruby (the wine one)

I haven't tried controlling excel via win32ole calls in this
environment, but I have done very similiar things that lead me to
believe that you can.

Hope that helps!

Dan