This release of the Identity Provider (IdP) and Service Provider (SP) brings SAML2 Web Browser SSO support to Guanxi using HTTP-POST (default) and HTTP-Redirect bindings. You can download the new releases from the Sourceforge site. (more…)

This was a bit of an adventure and a lot of googling so here it is in distilled form. Note that the unix paths have a space after unixodbc/ as otherwise wordpress goes wonky!

Download unuixODBC, unpack and install:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/unixodbc --enable-gui=no
make
make install

Download  FreeTDS, unpack and install:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/unixodbc --with-unixodbc=/usr/local/unixodbc
make
make install

Download rubyodbc, unpack and install:

ruby extconf.rb --with-odbc-dir=/usr/local/unixodbc
make
make install (more...)