diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/5.4.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/5.4.nix
index 5aabb61586e..99f18c175c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/5.4.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/5.4.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, composableDerivation, autoconf, automake, flex, bison
 , apacheHttpd, mysql, libxml2, readline, zlib, curl, gd, postgresql, gettext
 , openssl, pkgconfig, sqlite, config, libiconv, libjpeg, libpng, freetype
-, libxslt, libmcrypt, bzip2, icu, openldap, cyrus_sasl, libmhash }:
+, libxslt, libmcrypt, bzip2, icu, openldap, cyrus_sasl, libmhash, freetds }:
 
 let
   libmcryptOverride = libmcrypt.override { disablePosixThreads = true; };
@@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
         configureFlags = ["--enable-fpm"];
       };
 
+      mssql = {
+        configureFlags = ["--with-mssql=${freetds}"];
+        buildInputs = [freetds];
+      };
+
       /*
          php is build within this derivation in order to add the xdebug lines to the php.ini.
          So both Apache and command line php both use xdebug without having to configure anything.
@@ -213,6 +218,7 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
     zipSupport = config.php.zip or true;
     ftpSupport = config.php.ftp or true;
     fpmSupport = config.php.fpm or true;
+    mssqlSupport = config.php.mssql or true;
   };
 
   configurePhase = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
index 0d8fa1bd281..547e9e813be 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/freetds/default.nix
@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     sha256 = "0r946axzxs0czsmr7283w7vmk5jx3jnxxc32d2ncxsrsh2yli0ba";
   };
 
+  doDist = true;
+
+  distPhase = ''
+    touch $out/include/tds.h
+    touch $out/lib/libtds.a
+  '';
+
   meta = {
     description =
       "Libraries to natively talk to Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases";