[mdb-dev] Port libmdb (mdb-tools) for iOS

[Robert Z. <ref...@ya...>]

Ladies/Gents,

I just became a memeber and I hope the community can now receive my message.  If you have received it twice, I am sorry.
 
I am trying to read MSAccess mdb files on my iOS on the fly and saw this product.  I know it is not written for iOS, but has anyone tried to make it work?
For the day and a half of searching, I cannot find free source to read .mdb files on iOS.  The real problem to get it to work is mdb-tools dependency of glib.  I am considering of porting this library to be usable in iOS environment (eliminate dependency of glib and other libraries iOS does not support).  I want to first start with libmdb as other items depend on it.  When successful, speak to the community where it should go from there (perhaps make support for newer Access files)?
 
However, I feel libmdb can be done, but have not looked deep in the code to see if it will be a beast of a effort.  Can anybody provide me with valuable documentation on both mdb-tools architecture (each class and its purpose since there is very limited code comments) and the MDB file specification?  I know MDB file specification is not OCG, but any notes jotted down will be useful for me.
 
If you feel I should not waste my time please let me know why?  I really need this functionality and I thought this C class is the best basis project to start with to port over (seeing how iOS supports Objective-C++).
 
Bob