[Qgis-user] "Normal" mdb support possible for "normal" people?

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
> Le dimanche 23 septembre 2012 21:58:30, Etienne Tourigny a écrit :
>> Hi Even,
>>
>> can you comment on using the java jackcess library? It's probably the
>> only cross-platform solution. Does it support normal mdb files, and if
>> not, can it benefit from your recent additions?
>>
>> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mdb.html
>> http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/
>
> The MDB driver (with Jackcess library) indeed already supports normal MDB
> files. But it is a bit of a pain to use (needs linking GDAL with a JVM and the
> Jackess .jar), so the latest improvement to the ODBC driver should make it
> easier.

But your improvements are only supported in windows, right? Jackcess
is the only solution for linux (and mac) platforms, or are there
other(s)?