Feature Request: ODBC Driver Support for Windows ARM64 Architecture

[ck-clickhouse]

Request Overview

Add support for Windows ARM64 architecture to the ClickHouse ODBC driver.

Current Situation

• User is working on integrating ClickHouse with various data tools on a Windows ARM64 laptop
• Attempted to use the existing 64-bit ODBC driver
• Encountered system errors related to driver incompatibility due to ARM64 architecture

Impact

The lack of ARM64 support prevents users with ARM-based Windows devices from:

• Integrating ClickHouse with Windows data tools via ODBC
• Developing and testing ClickHouse applications on increasingly popular ARM-based Windows laptops
• Using ClickHouse in certain environments where ARM64 Windows machines are deployed

Business Justification

• Growing adoption of ARM-based Windows devices in the market
• Expanding the ecosystem compatibility of ClickHouse
• Supporting developers and analysts who use ClickHouse on these emerging platforms

Current Usecase

User's primary need for the ClickHouse ODBC driver is for developing reports using Microsoft Power BI. They cannot use the native connector for ClickHouse available on Power BI since they need to write custom SQL queries and that is where the ODBC tool suffices

[linux-wizard]

This is useful also when running Windows under VMWare Fusion for people using Mac OS X. The only way to have a working PowerBI Desktop + Windows ODBC driver working is to install following drivers:

• https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-odbc/releases/download/v1.1.10.20210822/clickhouse-odbc-1.1.10-win32.msi
• https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-odbc/releases/download/v1.1.10.20210822/clickhouse-odbc-1.1.10-win64.msi
  Seems to work as we end up using the 32bit compatibility layer