On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 05:55:59PM +0100, Platonides wrote:
> On 10/11/12 16:58, Andre Koopal wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Today I am working on a project where I need to convert an access database
> > dump to something else (mysql likely). Most things I found on the web
> > are not really suitable to script this process (it will need to run every
> > month), but mdbtools looks to be promising. However I tried to compile
> > that on toolserver all I got out of it are coredumps :-(. (Tried both on
> > willow and nightshade). The ubuntu pacakge does work on my home server.
> > 
> > Did anybody ever look into mdbtools and have it working? Is it perhaps
> > possible to have it globally installed on toolserver, as it probably is
> > usefull to some of the glam-projects as well?
> 
> I was able to compile mdbtools-0.6pre1 for linux, see the result at
> /mnt/user-store/mdbtools
> 
> I admit that compilation was a bit tricky.  When it complains that
> backend.c:31: error: static declaration of 'mdb_backends' follows
> non-static declaration, remove the static keyword from that line.
> yacc and flex are not installed in nightshade, I worked around that by
> running those of willow.
> The flex rule expected an output file of .c, so I ran ln -s lex.yy.c .c
> (otherwise you get an empty lexer.c)
> 
> However, the generated binaries didn't output any table for your file.
> 
> I then realised that my local mdbtools does work with yout file. Seems
> that mdbtools-0.7 is in GitHub, but not in SourceForge:
> https://github.com/brianb/mdbtools
> 
> However, in order for just running autoconf.sh, it needs libtool, which
> is not installed in Linux or Solaris.

Hi Platonides, I indeed have 0.7 as well on my home-server. Will there
be any luck getting libtool? Is there perhaps already a mdbtools 0.7 package
for debian, that can be installed?

Regards,

Andre
> 
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> > 
> > If people want an mdb file to test with, the file I need to convert is
> > at /mnt/user-store/rce-nl-data.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Andre
> > 
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