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

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 25, 2012, at 2:54 AM, Noli Sicad wrote:

> On 9/25/12, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Yes. But there would be no problems to make it work on Linux too, like
>>>> it
>>>> is
>>>> done in the PGeo driver, but personnaly I don't see the interest in
>>>> doing
>>>> so,
>>>> since in my experience, MDBTools, the Unix MDB ODBC driver, under Linux
>>>> (particularly 64bit) is too broken to be usefull
>>> 
>>> Does this apply for the new 0.7 version of mdbtools?  It seems to have a
>>> low
>>> profile because it is on github instead of sourceforge...
>>> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29472144
>> 
>> That's interesting news. I was refering to the (quite old) mdbtools that
>> ship
>> with Linux distro. Perhaps 0.7 includes interesting fixes.
>> 
> 
> Hopefully, it will work in Mac OS X as well.
> 
> It is not working at the moment. I filed a report bug.
> https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools/issues/17

I also had problems compiling the old version (at sourceforge), but I think it was something in the CLI tools, which I didn't need for ODBC.  I made a custom makefile to get the ODBC driver, but it never worked.  Maybe I'll try again with the new version (though it's low priority for me, no need).

There is a commercial OS X ODBC driver (Actual Tech) that I thought was based on mdbtools, but that can't be right since they don't distribute their source code.  I could not get theirs to works, problem skipping bytes in blobs (which is where the coordinate data is stored), they could not fix it.

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