GDAL/OGR >= 1.9.0
OGR optionally supports reading access .mdb files by using the Java Jackcess library.
This driver is primarly meant as being used on Unix platforms to overcome the issues often met with the MDBTools library that acts as the ODBC driver for MDB databases.
The driver can detect ESRI Personal Geodatabases and Geomedia MDB databases, and will deal them exactly as the PGeo and Geomedia drivers do. For other MDB databases, all the tables will be presented as OGR layers.
./configure --with-java=yes --with-mdb=yesIt is possible to add the --with-jvm-lib-add-rpath option to embed the path to the libjvm.so in the GDAL library.
On others Linux flavours, you may need to specify :
./configure --with-java=/path/to/jdk/root/path --with-jvm-lib=/path/to/libjvm/directory --with-mdb=yeswhere /path/to/libjvm/directory is for example /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64