Appendices:FreeTDS

Download and put the sources in /tmp :

# https://www.freetds.org/
# ftp://ftp.freetds.org/pub/freetds/stable/
# https://www.freetds.org/files/stable/freetds-1.4.17.tar.gz

[root@vmsqwarebox ~]# su - mssql
mssql@vmsqwarebox:/home/mssql () $ cd /applis/mssql/
mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql () $ tar zxvf /tmp/freetds-1.4.17.tar.gz

Compilation (with openssl, "yum install openssl-devel openssl" or "dnf install openssl-devel openssl") :

mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql () $ cd /applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17

#Command for CentOS 7
mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17 () $ ./configure --prefix=/applis/mssql/freetds --with-openssl=/usr/lib64/openssl/engines

#Command for Rocky Linux 8
mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17 () $ ./configure --prefix=/applis/mssql/freetds --with-openssl=/usr/lib64/engines-1.1

#Command for Linux 9
mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17 () $ ./configure --prefix=/applis/mssql/freetds --with-openssl=/usr/lib64/engines-3


checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
...

mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17 () $ make
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17/include'
make  all-recursive
make[2]: Entering directory `/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17/include'
Making all in freetds
make[3]: Entering directory `/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17/include/freetds'

...

mssql@vmsqwarebox:/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17 () $ make install
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17/include'
Making install in freetds
make[2]: Entering directory `/applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17/include/freetds'

...

Cleanup :

$ rm -rf /applis/mssql/freetds-1.4.17
$ rm -f /tmp/freetds-1.4.17.tar.gz

Links lib 64bits :

$ cd /applis/mssql/freetds
$ ln -s lib lib64
$ ls -l |grep lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 mssql dba 4096 Nov 23 09:38 lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 mssql dba    3 Nov 23 09:41 lib64 -> lib

Link to the automatically generated freetds.conf :

cd /applis/mssql/freetds/etc
mv freetds.conf freetds.conf.org
ln -s /home/dbsqware/dbSQWare/SQWareCentral/etc_cust/freetds_dbsqware.conf freetds.conf

Changes for ~mssql/.bash_profile :

# env FreeTDS (pour connexion MsSql)
export PATH=/applis/mssql/freetds/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/applis/mssql/freetds/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

lvsqw_InstanceParam=$(echo "$1"|tr [a-z] [A-Z])

# env dbSQWare for mssql, must stay at end of .bash_profile
export gvsqw_Env='PRD'
export gvsqw_MsqBin=$HOME/SQWareProduction/mssql/bin
lvsqw_IsTerminal=$(tty 2>&1 >/dev/null;echo $?)
if [ "$lvsqw_IsTerminal" = "0" ] && [ -r $gvsqw_MsqBin/../etc/.profile_confort ]
then
. $gvsqw_MsqBin/../etc/.profile_confort
fi