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

[Tudor H. <tu...@tu...>]

On a related note, is there any chance of shifting to a git repos?  
These kinds of project branching (as in code-share project branching) 
work much better on git, in my experience.

Cheers,
Tudor.

On 12-08-11 03:17 AM, Robert Zermeno wrote:
> Alex,
> Thanks for the quick feedback.  STL is supported by iOS and if you 
> used all the STL classes as they were intended I believe you have made 
> my day.  If you do not mind, can you provide me with your source code 
> for me to try it out?  I am sure it will work, but if not it will be a 
> great start to finish the port.  Once finished, perhaps the community 
> can make a branch for iOS support as I would like to continue to see 
> this project support newer Access files.
> If you can zip the project and send it to me that will be awesome.
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> *From:* Alexander Lehner <le...@ed...>
> *To:* Robert Zermeno <ref...@ya...>
> *Cc:* "mdb...@li..." 
> <mdb...@li...>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 10, 2012 9:55 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [mdb-dev] Port libmdb (mdb-tools) for iOS
>
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Robert Zermeno wrote:
>
> > 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++).
>
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> there was a discussion concerning the dependency on glibc earlier on this
> list, but I don't remember how it ended. Maybe it's worth searching the
> archive.
>
> I had this problem as well and solved it, by replacing the functions of
> glibc that are beeing used in libmdb by my own implementation.
> These are mainly some containers (hashes etc) and I re-implemented them by
> using STL.
> So my workaround is no longer plain ANSI-C but C++.
> If that's ok for you, I can give you my code.
>
> Alex.
>
>
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