jlpears:

When I last did it, I just did the standard routine. But I didn't use FreeTDS, instead I went to the Sybase site and downloaded the free client drivers and compiled and linked against those. I couldn't quickly find a package with just the drivers, but you could choose the ASE 15.5 developers edition from the download page. IIRC, when you install ASE, you can choose to just install the client software.

Frequently, though, I'll just use ODBC drivers to access Sybase and MS SQL Server database servers. (And SQLite, Oracle, ....)

...roboticus