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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>What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the git repository</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="build.html" title="Chapter 2. Build FreeTDS" /><link rel="prev" href="build.html" title="Chapter 2. Build FreeTDS" /><link rel="next" href="config.html" title="How to build: Configure and make" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the <span class="productname">git</span> repository</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="build.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Build <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span></th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="config.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="packages"></a>What to build: Packages, Tarballs, and the <span class="productname">git</span> repository</h2></div></div></div><p>The latest <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> package is always available from <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/freetds-stable.tgz" target="_top"> <em class="citetitle">ftp.freetds.org</em></a>.</p><p>Code changes by the developers are immediately available in the <span class="productname">git</span> repository. If you've run into a problem, you may want to check out from <span class="productname">git</span> to see if it's fixed there.</p><p>No password is needed to obtain the current git copy of <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span>; you need only have a git client installed on your machine. Then: </p><pre class="screen"> <code class="prompt">$ </code><strong class="userinput"><code>git clone https://github.com/FreeTDS/freetds.git</code></strong> <code class="prompt">$ </code></pre><p>For those behind firewalls or otherwise unable to access <span class="productname">git</span>, nightly snapshots of <span class="productname">git</span> are rolled up into tarballs for your convenience. They can be downloaded from <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/current/freetds-current.tgz" target="_top">ftp.freetds.org</a>.</p><p>In general, the <span class="productname">git</span> master branch (the basis of the current nightly snapshot) works better and has more functionality than the release version. Bugs sometimes persist in the release version but are usually fixed in short order (once identified) in <span class="productname">git</span> master.</p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><table border="0" summary="Tip"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="../images/tip.gif" /></td><th align="left">Tip</th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>As with any project of this sort, if you want to use the <span class="productname">git</span> master branch, it's a good idea to join the mailing list. </p></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="build.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="build.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="config.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Chapter 2. Build <span class="productname">FreeTDS</span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> How to build: Configure and make</td></tr></table></div></body></html>