1[](https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/actions) 2[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/evanmiller/mdbtools/branch/dev) 3[](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list?sort=-opened&can=1&q=proj:mdbtools) 4 5Welcome to the exciting world of MDB Tools! MDB Tools is a set of programs to 6help you extract data from Microsoft Access files in various settings. See the 7[NEWS](./NEWS) file for information about the latest release. 8 9## Components 10 11The major pieces of MDB Tools are: 12 13### libmdb 14 15The core library that allows access to MDB files programatically. See [mdbtools.h](./include/mdbtools.h.in) for the complete API. 16 17### libmdbsql 18 19Builds on libmdb to provide a SQL engine (aka Jet). See [mdbsql.h](./include/mdbsql.h) for the complete API. 20 21### utils 22 23Provides command line utilities, including: 24 25| Command | Description | 26| ------- | ----------- | 27| `mdb-ver` | Prints the version (JET 3 or 4) of an mdb file. | 28| `mdb-schema` | Prints DDL for the specified table. | 29| `mdb-export` | Export table to CSV or SQL formats. | 30| `mdb-json` | Export table to JSON format. | 31| `mdb-tables` | A simple dump of table names to be used with shell scripts. | 32| `mdb-count` | A simple count of number of rows in a table, to be used in shell scripts and ETL pipelines. | 33| `mdb-sql` | A simple SQL engine (also used by ODBC and gmdb). | 34| `mdb-queries` | List and print queries stored in the database. | 35| `mdb-hexdump`\* | (in [src/extras](./src/extras)) Simple hex dump utility to look at mdb files. | 36| `mdb-array`\* | Export data in an MDB database table to a C array. | 37| `mdb-header`\* | Generates a C header to be used in exporting mdb data to a C prog. | 38| `mdb-parsecsv`\* | Generates a C program given a CSV file made with mdb-export. | 39 40\* Deprecated 41 42See the man page of each program for usage instructions. 43 44The [src/util](./src/util) directory also contains a number of debugging tools, intended for developers. They are: 45 46| Command | Description | 47| ------- | ----------- | 48| `prcat` | Prints the catalog table from an mdb file. | 49| `prkkd` | Dump of information about design view data given the offset to it. | 50| `prtable` | Dump of a table definition. | 51| `prdata` | Dump of the data given a table name. | 52| `prole` | Dump of ole columns given a table name and sargs. | 53 54These tools are not installed on the host system. 55 56### odbc 57 58An ODBC driver for use with unixODBC or iODBC driver manager. Allows one to use MDB files with PHP for example. 59 60### gmdb2 61 62The Gnome MDB File Viewer and debugger. Recently ported to GTK+3 and moved to [mdbtools/gmdb2](https://github.com/mdbtools/gmdb2). 63 64## License 65 66Files in libmdb, libmdbsql, and libmdbodbc are licensed under LGPL and the 67utilities and gui program are under the GPL, see [COPYING.LIB](./COPYING.LIB) 68and [COPYING](./COPYING) files respectively. 69 70 71## Requirements 72 73First, you must have reasonably current installations of: 74 75* [libtool](https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/) 76* [automake](https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/) 77* [autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) (version >= 2.64) 78 79If you want to build the SQL engine, you'll need 80[bison](https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/) (version >= 3.0) or 81[byacc](https://invisible-island.net/byacc/byacc.html), and 82[flex](https://github.com/westes/flex). 83 84If you want to build the ODBC driver, you'll need `unixodbc-dev` (version 852.2.10 or above) or [iodbc](http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/doc/iodbc/wiki/iodbcWiki/WelcomeVisitors). 86 87If you want to build man pages, you'll need 88[GNU awk](https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/). 89 90 91## Installation 92 93Latest version is available at https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools 94 95### Debian 96 97``` 98apt install mdbtools 99``` 100 101### Homebrew 102 103```bash 104brew install mdbtools 105``` 106 107### MacPorts 108 109```bash 110port install mdbtools 111``` 112 113### From source 114 115If you have cloned the Git repository, you will first need to generate the 116`configure` file (skip this step if you have downloaded a formal release): 117 118```bash 119$ autoreconf -i -f 120``` 121 122Then: 123 124```bash 125$ ./configure 126``` 127 128OR for a complete install (requires bison, flex, and unixODBC): 129 130```bash 131$ ./configure --with-unixodbc=/usr/local 132``` 133 134By default, MDB Tools is linked against the copy of 135[GLib](https://developer.gnome.org/glib/) returned by pkg-config. You can 136point to a different GLib installation using the `GLIB_CFLAGS` and `GLIB_LIBS` 137enivornment variables. Or, you can disable GLib entirely with the 138`--disable-glib` flag, in which case MDB Tools will use an internal 139implementation of GLib's functions. 140 141configure can be passed any of the following flags to turn on other 142capabilities. Note that the options `--with-unixodbc` and `--with-iodbc` are 143mutually exclusive. 144 145``` 146--with-unixodbc specifies the location of the unixODBC driver manager and 147 causes the unixODBC driver to be built. 148--with-iodbc specifies the location of the iODBC driver manager and 149 causes the iODBC driver to be built. 150``` 151 152By default, the ODBC driver will be installed as /usr/local/lib/odbc/libmdbodbc.so, 153with a Unicode-capable driver at /usr/local/lib/odbc/libmdbodbcW.so. 154 155A list of general options is available in the [INSTALL](./INSTALL) file, and 156`configure --help` will give you the list of mdbtools specific options. 157 158```bash 159$ make 160``` 161 162Once MDB Tools has been compiled, libmdb.[so|a] will be in the src/libmdb 163directory and the utility programs will be in the src/util directory. 164 165You can then install (to /usr/local by default) by running the following as root: 166 167```bash 168$ make install 169``` 170 171Some systems will also need the ld cache to be updated after installation; 172You can do that running: 173 174```bash 175$ ldconfig 176``` 177 178## Hacking 179 180If you are interested in helping, read the [HACKING](./HACKING) file for a description of 181where the code stands and what has been gleened of the file format. 182 183## Contact 184 185Please send bug reports to the new github repository. 186https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools/issues 187
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