Publish to Joomla with ODBC using 32 or 64 bits?

[DeBAAT]

Hai all,
At the moment, I'm getting a bit confused with all the possible combinations that are possible when mixing 32 and 64 bit applications and addons.

For this particular use case, I would like to publish a model to a Joomla site running in a local Laragon environment with a 64 bit MySQL database.
I installed separately an ODBC driver for MySQL which was not yet included on my machine. It comes with both a 32 and 64 version. I tried both options to no avail.
When I only have the 32 bit ODBC driver installed, the ODBC connection can only be managed by the 32 bit EA client (in this case v15.2).
The 64 bit EA client is v16.0.1605.

I managed to get some successful configurations running, including the connection tests and the selection of the Joomla User, as described in the manuals.
Unfortunately I get stuck on the message "Database Connection Error" which causes the EA client to crash.

Any suggestions to solve this are welcome.

Best,
Jan