Big Brother ODBC setup

Download the latest stable release from http://freetds.org, then:

* FTP freetds-stable.tgz to /usr/local on your BBServer (binary mode).
* Login to your BBServer as root and cd to /usr/local.
* Uncompress and untar your upload (tar zxvf freetds-stable.tgz).
* Change directories to /usr/local/freetds-X.XX.
* Execute the configure script (./configure).

NOTE: Read the config help docs by executing ./configure --help for more configuration options. By default FreeTDS will install in /usr/bin and /usr/lib.

* Brief Instructions:

$ ./configure --help
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

* Edit the /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf file to add servers.
* Test the connection with /usr/local/bin/tsql.
* Build and test the package that requires FreeTDS.

NOTE: If you want to build the ODBC driver (which is what this page is about), you'll probably first want to install a Driver Manager (on Unix-like systems). This release of FreeTDS was tested with unixODBC 2.2.11. Test your system with:

# odbcinst -s -j
unixODBC 2.2.11
DRIVERS............: /etc/odbcinst.ini
SYSTEM DATA SOURCES: /etc/odbc.ini
USER DATA SOURCES..: /root/.odbc.ini