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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Chapter 2. Build FreeTDS</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="userguide.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="FreeTDS User Guide" /><link rel="prev" href="projects.html" title="Current Projects, Language Bindings, and Alternatives" /><link rel="next" href="packages.html" title="What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the git repository" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 2. Build <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="projects.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center"> </th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="packages.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="chapter"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="build"></a>Chapter 2. Build <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span></h1></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="build.html#gnu">The <acronym class="acronym">GNU</acronym> World</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="packages.html">What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the <span class="productname">git</span> repository</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="config.html">How to build: Configure and make</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="config.html#Experts">For Experts</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="config.html#Everyone">(<span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> for Dummies?)</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="osissues.html">OS-specific Issues</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="osissues.html#Windows">Win32 and Win64</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="osissues.html#VMS">VMS®</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="osissues.html#osx">OS X®</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="osissues.html#AIX">AIX®</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="osissues.html#RPM">GNU/Linux distributions that use RPMs</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><div class="epigraph"><p>If you build it they will come.</p></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="gnu"></a>The <acronym class="acronym">GNU</acronym> World</h2></div></div></div><p><span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> uses <acronym class="acronym">GNU</acronym> <span class="application">Autoconf</span>, <span class="application">Automake</span>, and <span class="application">libtool</span><a href="#ftn.idm364" class="footnote" id="idm364"><sup class="footnote">[4]</sup></a> to increase portability.</p><p>For many people, the preceding sentence says it all (good or bad). If you're familiar with the <acronym class="acronym">GNU</acronym> system, you can probably just download the tarball and get away with scanning the <code class="filename">README.md</code> impatiently and then following your instincts. Because everyone is a beginner once and no one is an expert at everything, we'll try to explain things in plain English where possible, and to define our terms as we go along.</p><p>If the following nevertheless reads like gibberish, you might very well want to use something prepackaged (see <a class="link" href="projects.html#alternatives" title="Alternatives">Alternatives</a>). If it reads like a vaguely intelligible alien script that might yield to intensive research, we've included links to some of the usual suspects at the end of this chapter. If it reads like a bad explanation of something you could explain better, please send us your version!</p></div><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr style="width:100; text-align:left;margin-left: 0" /><div id="ftn.idm364" class="footnote"><div class="itemizedlist"><p class="title"><strong><a href="#idm364" class="itemizedlist"><sup>[4] </sup></a>Versions used for this release</strong></p><ul class="itemizedlist compact" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>automake (GNU automake) 1.15</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.4.6</p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="projects.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="packages.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Current Projects, Language Bindings, and Alternatives </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the <span class="productname">git</span> repository</td></tr></table></div></body></html>