FreeTDS User Guide: A Guide to Installing, Configuring, and Running FreeTDS
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OS-specific Issues

If you've recently built and installed FreeTDS and noticed steps peculiar to your OS, we'll happily include your comments here.

One thing that can be said, if it's not too obvious: check with your vendor or favorite download site. FreeTDS is routinely rolled up into OS install packages. We know of packages for Debian, Red Hat, FreeBSD, and NetBSD. The installation through the package management systems in these environments may well reduce your work to simply make install.

The FreeTDS ODBC driver compiles under

Threadsafe operation will not be enabled.

From the Department of Double Emulation: FreeTDS builds as a .dll under WINE and as a .a under Interix. See the mailing list archives (second half of 2003) for details.

VMS®

FreeTDS will probably build and run on most versions of OpenVMS Alpha 7.0 and later with DEC/Compaq C 6.0 or later. Other prerequisites:

gunzip
vmstar
MMS or MMK

Build Instructions

Decompress and unpack the source archive using gunzip and vmstar. If you are untarring on an ODS-5 disk, you should use the /ODS2 or -o option to create universally VMS-friendly filenames; otherwise the build will fail to locate some files.

Set default to the top-level source directory and run the configuration script:

    $ @[.vms]configure

This creates a descrip.mms in the top-level source directory which you may execute by simply running MMS (if you have the Module Management System that is part of DECset) or MMK (a freeware MMS alternative available from www.madgoat.com).

Further information can be found in the in the source distribution.

OS X®

As of this writing ($Date: 2008/03/23 21:02:52 $), the regular distribution compiles on OS X. Releases prior to 0.63 either did not compile or required patching.

Alternative build procedure

On 11 March 2004, offered the following approach, using a local libtool. It is included here as a source of clues, in case you encounter trouble.

Installing with libtool 1.5.2

  1. Install the latest libtool from GNU into /usr/local, so as not to interfere with the Apple-original.

  2. Make sure /usr/local/bin is in your PATH and /usr/local/lib is in your LIBRARY_PATH.

  3. Go to the FreeTDS source directory and generate the Makefiles 

    		$ ./configure --disable-libiconv --disable-odbc

  4. Overwrite FreeTDS's libtool with a symbolic link to your (better) one 

    		[1]
		$ ln -sf /usr/local/bin/libtool

  5. To check that you've done everything correctly up to this point, 

    		$ ./libtool --version
    libtool should report version 1.5.2 (or whatever version you downloaded, and not 1.4).

  6. And finally, of course 

    		$ make && make install

AIX®

AIX® can induce linker indigestion. libtool doesn't always understand that a .a file can be a shared library. One solution is to build only static libraries with the --disable-shared configure option.

Another problem seems to be that the linker isn't asked to pull in all the requisite libraries. Cf. this helpful mailing list message.

GNU/Linux distributions that use RPMs

You may find it convenient to make an RPM from the source distribution, in which case you'll be glad to know it is easily done: 

			$ rpmbuild -ta freetds-0.63RC9.tar.gz

Notes

[1]

If you run configure again, you'll need to perform this step again, because libtool will have been regenerated in its fossilized state.

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