How to install and configure a 32 bit ODBC driver on a 64 bit Operating System? | FileMaker Pro Custom Database Development | Razvoj databaza sa aplikacijom FileMaker Pro

How to install and configure a 32 bit ODBC driver on a 64 bit Operating System?

You have a 64 bit operating system, which usually comes with a more modern equipment, and specially a 64 bit server OS, which is most likely to be the case, and you need to install an ODBC driver that would work with a 32 bit application such as FileMaker Pro.
If you install a 64 bit ODBC driver, it will be listed and configurable in “ODBC Data Source Administrator” (Start\Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\Data Source (ODBC)), but it will not be able to work with FileMaker Pro (or any other 32 bit application).
On the other hand, if you try to install the 32 bit driver, the system will not recognise it, and it will not appear in your default Data Sources (ODBC) inside the control panel, so you will not be able to configure it and connect to MySQL.

THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM – In many places you will read that this is IMPOSSIBLE – WHICH IS NOT TRUE. What you need to do is the following:

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