FreeTDS Development Group

["Martin Button" <martin.button AT program-products.co.uk>]

>Right.  If you can get a clean installation of FreeTDS within the
>package/ports system, FreeTDS is ready.  But you have might to diddle with
>PHP, because it's expecting the Sybase header files in the sybase
directory,
>and you're using (or will be using) FreeTDS.
>
>See http://www.freetds.org/userguide/php.html, especially:
>
>       Then build PHP with support for "sybase"
>       $ cd php
>       $ ./configure --with-sybase=/usr/local/freetds
>
>Let us know...
>
>> I'm coming from a Windows background so totally new to all of this.
>
>I always like to offer an especially warm greeting to anyone coming in from
>the cold.  I hope you like it here.

James,

All I can say is that I did warn you I was new to this.

I tried the port but had problems with the same files when trying to make
PHP. After this I went back to compiling the latest version. After following
the instructions in the documentation and other postings I'd seen and not
having any success I decided to read the INSTALL file again ( I had glanced
at it briefly before ). This time I took note of the fact that it says to
use gmake to make FreeTDS. After install and making using gmake everything
went fine.

In my defence I did follow the instructions on the website which just said
make. I guess they're not very helpful to a newbie like me.

Thanks for the help

Martin