Failed to load tcom

[jmcastellano]

I am trying to use tcom to run an Excel macro from tcl.
There are several posts on the forum in various states regarding this.
I have downloaded version 3.9 tcom from:

http://www.vex.net/~cthuang/tcom/

And put the files where indicated. However the next step:
package require tcom
Does not work. I get the following error message:
couldn't load library "C:/Tcl/lib/tcom/tcom.dll": invalid argument

I can go to the directory and see the tcom.dll file, it is there are is readable.
I have also tried a suggestion to use:
teacup install tcom
I get this long error:
Resolving tcom ... Not found in the archives.

While a more fuzzy search disregarding letter case and accepting
substrings was done, we are sorry to say that it yielded no possible
candidates for installation either.

Questions to consider:
Have you spelled the name correctly ?
Including the proper case of characters ?

Note that teacup's 'search' command allows you to locate packages by
subject, categories, and the like.


Aborting installation, was not able to locate the requested
entity.
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I can certainly see tcom is there in the directory.

PC is running Windows 7, could that be the problem? Tcl version 8.5.12

Any help with this is appreciated.

 

[mikrom]

I'm using ActiveTcl and tcom works fine for me - see some older threads:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1608520

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1665365

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1678019

 

[jmcastellano]

Thanks mikrom,
I had already seen two of those links.
Are you using Windows 7?

 

[mikrom]

Are you using ActiveTcl ?
I have installed tcom only on Windows XP and Windows Vista - I didn't try it on Windows 7 till now.

 

[mikrom]

If you have 64-bit Windows with 64-bit Tcl installed, then maybe the answer for your problem is here:

http://community.activestate.com/forum/cant-install-tcom-package-through-teacup

They say, that tcom is available only for 32-bit tcl - so you should install 32-bit Tcl on your 64-bit Windows.