x64 Windows build cannot be installed on Arm Windows. With version 2 driver it was possible.

[OneCodeCZ]

I run my app on Arm Windows. My app is x64 so it requires x64 ODBC driver. So far it worked fine with the version 2. However, version 3 of the x64 driver CANNOT be installed on Arm Windows.

Is it possible to allow x64 build to be installed on Arm Windows as it used to be with version 2?

[irodushka]

Hi @OneCodeCZ

Can you please clarify. In issue#261 you wrote "I found ARM installers eventually. Please, fix the link on the repo home page which leads to an outdated zip." And here you're writing that it cannot be installed.

The ODBC driver assembly for win x86 can be used on ARM64 Windows only in emulation (slow) mode due to completely different CPU architecture. I just recently added a native ARM64 build for Windows and you can find it at https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird-odbc-driver/wiki page (Windows_ARM64.
To be honest, I didn't have a chance to test it on the target architecture since I don't have Windows ARM64 at hand.
So I would be very grateful if you try to install and use it.
And if you encounter any problems - you're welcome to report them to me and I will try to solve them asap.

Regards

[OneCodeCZ]

The Arm build works just fine, I can install it. I wrote about x64 build which cannot be installed on Arm Windows. My app is x64 and it requires x64 ODBC driver.

So it would be great if you could modify the x64 installer so it can run on Arm Windows. Now it complains about architecture mismatch. Btw, we did a quick fix and a custom build so we can survive till this is fixed officially. My colleague who did it will write here a comment about it.

Thanks!

[KoudelkaB]

My quick fix is change in the innosetup file.
When I change:
#elif PlatformTarget == "ARM64"
ArchitecturesAllowed=arm64
into
#elif PlatformTarget == "ARM64"
ArchitecturesAllowed=arm64 x64compatible
the resulting installer is than working to install on ARM and the driver then can be used from windows x64 app running on x64 emulator - which is not possible when we install the oficial Firebird ODBC driver ARM build.

[KoudelkaB]

I have created pull request to fix this issue:
#263

[irodushka]

Hi @OneCodeCZ @KoudelkaB

Sorry for the delay, was busy with other projects.

Okay, it's not a big deal to merge this) See build 3.0.1.19 @ wiki page.

My app is x64 and it requires x64 ODBC driver.

I just wonder why your x64 app cannot interact with the ARM64 odbc driver. According to Microsoft documentation, it should...

Regards
Yuri

[OneCodeCZ]

I just wonder why your x64 app cannot interact with the ARM64 odbc driver. According to Microsoft documentation, it should...

The issue is that x64 app cannot load ARM64 DLLs. It requires x64 DLL.