[fpc-pascal] EOLESysError calling CreateOLEObject

[Marco van de Voort]

> I created a very simple program to create a shortcut in the desktop,
> but it crashes with EOLESysError (nothing else in the error message).
> I tryed to google, but it didn't show much. Am I missing some kind of
> initialization call that should be made? thanks, here is the full
> program.

I'm no com wizard, BUT

Try coinitialize(nil);  (and couninitialize;) from unit activex.