I need to read some old xls file instead with xlsx with st_read() that is part of the spatial extension.

Is there a way to enable the Gdal xls driver in the spatial extension?

I see on Gdal that there is a xls driver which has a dependency on libfreexl.
https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/xls.html

CREATE TABLE step1 AS SELECT * FROM st_read(‘./step1/Old_Excel_Format.xls’, layer = ‘General’);

Thank you in advance.