Yes, Indeed, I mean, I used a driver to access, but can't remember now
the brand, but I'm sure I not payed for it :)

May be I used some trial version....

2010/7/18 Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]>:
>
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Germán Arduino wrote:
>
>> Not, I'm not talking of propietary software.
>>
>> I'm talking of one I used when helped Diego with the testing of the
>> odbc package. Don't remember now, but may be this
>> http://www.unixodbc.org/ ?
>
> ODBC is just an API, if you don't have a driver for yourdatabase, then it
> won't help.
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> About Mac, sorry, never touched a mac in all my life....
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>>
>> 2010/7/18 Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Germán Arduino wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tudor:
>>>>
>>>> Is as Levente says, you must define an ODBC source on a Windows PC
>>>> (Alternatively on Unix you can use ODBC also).
>>>
>>> I don't know any free ODBC drivers for Access on un*x. I only know a
>>> driver
>>> which costs 4-5 times more than the windows OS itself :). But
>>> there's a driver for mac which costs only 30 usd if you're interested.
>>>
>>>
>>> Levente
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Some examples on: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2480
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>> Germán.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2010/7/18 Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Mariano!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indeed, if I load ConfigurationOfFFI first, everything loads well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am a complete newbie in this area. Can anyone tell me what I should
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> next?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I imagine that I should connect to an Access server. If yes, how would
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> do that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, do I need anything else, like a C plugin/library to get the C
>>>>>> calls
>>>>>> from ODBCLibrary going?
>>>>>
>>>>> First you'll need a pc running windows. Then you have to create an ODBC
>>>>> Data
>>>>> Source for your Access file. Then you'll be able to create a connection
>>>>> to
>>>>> that datasource from your image.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Levente
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Doru
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 18 Jul 2010, at 09:17, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Tudor Girba <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I tried loading it, but I get :
>>>>>>> "This package depends on the following classes:
>>>>>>> ExternalLibrary
>>>>>>> ExternalStructure"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone tell me where to find these from?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This means that you need Metacello ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Those classes are from FFI, a pre-requisite for ODBC to work.
>>>>>>> Maybe there is a ConfigurationOfODBC somewhere...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For the moment, I recommend you to install FFI using the
>>>>>>> ConfigurationOfFFI.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mariano
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, are there eternal prerequisites to work with ODBC?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Doru
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 18 Jul 2010, at 00:35, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a way to connect to a Microsoft Access database from Pharo?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, with ODBC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Levente
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have an mdb file of 300 Mb that I would need to analyze.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Doru
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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