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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"-ComObject should not be exposed on systems where it is not supported","articleBody":"Hello everybody, i am encountering an issue.\r\nI need to convert some old XML files (encoded with word 2006 .xml schema) as PDF.\r\nI already used PowerShell and ComObject to do this on a Windows system :\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n$word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application\r\n$word.Documents.Open($filename).SaveAs($filename.replace(\".xml\", \".pdf\"), 17)\r\n```\r\n\r\nbut now I have to automate this process on a Linux system (every XML files are generated onto).\r\nPowerShell on Linux able to me to use these commands but not ComObject due to a missing of api-ms-win-core-com-l1-1-0.dll\r\n\r\nIs there any way to load this dll into a Linux system ? If not, is there any other way to do the same ?\r\n\r\nCommand\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n$word = New-Object -ComObject Word.Application\r\n```\r\n\r\nExpected behavior\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n```none\r\n\r\n```\r\n\r\nActual behavior\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\nNew-Object : Unable to load DLL 'api-ms-win-core-com-l1-1-0.dll': The specified module or one of its dependencies could not be found.\r\n (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)\r\nAt line:1 char:9\r\n+ $word = New-Object -ComObject Word.application\r\n+         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-Object], DllNotFoundException\r\n    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.DllNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand\r\n```\r\n\r\nEnvironment data\r\n-----------------\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\n\u003e $PSVersionTable\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.0.0-beta\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    v6.0.0-beta.7\r\nOS                             Linux 4.4.0-38-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 6 15:42:33 UTC 2016\r\nPlatform                       Unix\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/JeremyBidet","@type":"Person","name":"JeremyBidet"},"datePublished":"2017-09-22T13:43:47.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/4897/PowerShell/issues/4897"}