Re: [mdb-dev] Problem connecting to Access Database on Windows Server from 32 bit Linux

[Andrew P J. <mdb...@an...>]

On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 18:42 +0200, Alexander Lehner wrote:
> >
> 
> What version of libmdb are you using?
> What says 'gcc --version'?

I extracted the files from mdbtools-0.6pre1.tar.gz

downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/files/

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) 4.6.1
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

The packaged version of mdbtools currently installed and 'working' is

 $ aptitude show mdbtools
Package: mdbtools                        
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20051109-7.1
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubu...@li...>
Uncompressed Size: 233 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libmdbtools (>=
0.5.99.0.6pre1.0.20051109), libreadline6 (>= 6.0)
Description: JET / MS Access database (MDB) tools
 These are various tools for manipulating JET / MS Access database (MDB)
files: 
 * utils     - provides command line utilities to list tables, export
schema, 
              and data, show file versions, and other useful stuff.
 * mdb-sql   - a command line SQL tool that allows one to type sql
queries and 
              get results.
 * odbc      - An ODBC driver for use with unixODBC driver manager.
Allows 
              one to use MDB files with PHP for example.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdbtools/


> 
> I just downloaded mdbtools 0.5 release and 'make' was successful.
> 
> It seems that the line numbers compared to your error message do not 
> match to the sources I've got.
> 
> I understand what the error message says and am wondering how such code 
> could become an official release. As far as I understand, such 
> construction never will compile.
> 
> 
> Alex.
> 
I will download and try version 0.5 tomorrow.

Thanks for your help,

Andy