Description:
The windows 11 arm64 platform is currently unsupported as binaries are not yet available.
Native arm64 code is therefore unable to connect to a MySQL server.
Providing at least the ODBC connector would be a good start.
Other info
While it is true that Microsoft don't publish any official sales figures for Windows 11 arm64 architecture it's pretty clear that since its origins back in 2017 the usage has increased steadily and is now increasing much more rapidly. Its not just a market for Parallels VM users (many of whom are software developers) as today there are an increasing number of laptops and desktop arm64 PC's from manufacturers including HP and Lenovo. Porting software to windows arm64 is in most cases just a matter of recompiling with a different toolchain and it's only awkward little things like the use of SIMD intrinsics or assembler code that can complicate matters. For some reason however database connectivity seems to be one of the few thing that has been overlooked by some 3rd party providers. As it happens, MariaDB and MySQL are not the only providers who have so far failed to release arm64 versions. PostgreSQL and even Oracle also lack arm64 connectivity. At the end of the day it means that users of arm64 Windows will likely not be able to use these 3rd party products! I wonder which of these vendors will be the first?
How to repeat:
N/A (self explanatory)
Suggested fix:
Provide installers for ODBC connector
ideally also the C connector and the server itself!
