Question

I’m willing to write a subset of Perl’s DBI interface for libodbc (or unixODBC) in C++.
I believe doing so will allow me concentrate better on my goal.

BTW, I prefer avoiding to reinvent the wheel, if of course something similar is already out there.

Answer 1

NVM, no odbc interface, but it is DBI like (seeing as DBI doesn’t use odbc except in DBD::ODBC)

libdbi – http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/

libdbi implements a
database-independent abstraction layer
in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in
Perl. Writing one generic set of code,
programmers can leverage the power of
multiple databases and multiple
simultaneous database connections by
using this framework.

In order to utilize the libdbi
framework, you need to install drivers
for a particular type of database. The
drivers officially supported by libdbi
are split off into the libdbi-drivers
project. The current version of libdbi
(0.8.3) is supposed to work with any
0.8.x release of libdbi-drivers. Currently the following database
engines are supported:

* Firebird/Interbase
* FreeTDS (provides access to MS SQL Server and Sybase)
* MySQL
* PostgreSQL
* SQLite/SQLite3