FreeTDS Installation If you are installing from git repository please read INSTALL.GIT. For complete instructions, see the FreeTDS Users Guide. It is included in the distribution inside "doc/userguide/"; simply open "doc/userguide/index.html" and enjoy. It is also online: http://www.freetds.org/userguide/ 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. If you want to build the ODBC driver, 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. For any other information please see the Users Guide.