title: FreeTDS configuration on MacOS without .so files
body: <p>Can anyone point me to how to setup an ODBC connection to a MS SQL Server using FreeTDS? All of the posts and items I found on the web so far require the .so file which is no longer generated (or required) when installing FreeTDS according to its <a href="http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#where.is.libtds.so" rel="nofollow noreferrer">documentation</a>. What confuses me is the fact that the user documentation also shows a setup using the libtdsodbc.so file.</p>
  
  <p>I did manage to find this link on Github (<a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/24550" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/24550</a>) about someone who manually compiled iODBC for Mac and got it working, but after cloning the corresponding Guthub iODBC source I wasn't able to compile it without errors. Error 127 (which is what I get) is rather vague for me. The manual install of iODBC somehow made <code>brew install freetds</code> find the required iODBC headers to generate libtdsodbc.so.</p>
  
  <p>I assume since FreeTDS no longer generates any .so (Shared Object), it is supposed to function without them.</p>
  
  <p>Any help is greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Best regards,</p>
  
  <p>Andre.</p>