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Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #495526]

Thu, 05 November 2009 04:16

Corbyn
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2009

Junior Member

I recently installed Windows 7 (64-bit) onto my laptop. I am a college student with a major in computer science and I am learning Java. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers worked perfectly fine with my 64-bit Windows Vista, but now, every time I try to open Eclipse, I get this error message:

A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
C:\Users\Corbyn\Desktop\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe
javaw.exe in your current PATH

I'm not completely sure what it's asking for, so help would be greatly appreciated

EDIT: Forgot to mention that there is no such folder ( \jre ) in my eclipse directory.

[Updated on: Thu, 05 November 2009 04:23]

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Re: Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #495617 is a reply to message #495526 ]

Thu, 05 November 2009 09:08

Russell Bateman
Messages: 147
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

cjohnson1991.gmail.com wrote:
> I recently installed Windows 7 (64-bit) onto my laptop. I am a college
> student with a major in computer science and I am learning Java. Eclipse
> IDE for Java Developers worked perfectly fine with my 64-bit Windows
> Vista, but now, every time I try to open Eclipse, I get this error message:
>
> A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be
> available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found
> after searching the following locations:
> C:\Users\Corbyn\Desktop\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe
> javaw.exe in your current PATH
>
> I'm not completely sure what it's asking for, so help would be greatly
> appreciated
I can't specifically answer your question, but as noted frequently in
this forum, you should specifically use the -vm switch in your
eclipse.ini file to avoid such trouble.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

Russ Bateman

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Re: Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #495632 is a reply to message #495526 ]

Thu, 05 November 2009 09:41

David Kerber
Messages: 11
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

In article <hcu54s$hs1$1.build.eclipse.org>, cjohnson1991.gmail.com
says...
> I recently installed Windows 7 (64-bit) onto my laptop. I am a college student with a major in computer science and I am learning Java. Eclipse IDE for Java Developers worked perfectly fine with my 64-bit Windows Vista, but now, every time I try to open Eclipse, I get this error message:
>
> A Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
> C:\Users\Corbyn\Desktop\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe
> javaw.exe in your current PATH
>
> I'm not completely sure what it's asking for, so help would be greatly appreciated

It's telling you it can't find the JRE that eclipse needs to run. Have
you installed one?

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Re: Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #495779 is a reply to message #495632 ]

Thu, 05 November 2009 22:38

Corbyn
Messages: 3
Registered: November 2009

Junior Member

I have the JRE downloaded and installed. now how do i point eclipse to the javaw.exe file?

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Re: Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #495784 is a reply to message #495617 ]

Thu, 05 November 2009 22:58

Corbyn
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Registered: November 2009

Junior Member

Problem solved, thank you

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Re: Eclipse on 64-bit Windows 7 [message #496069 is a reply to message #495779 ]

Sat, 07 November 2009 15:58

Walter Harley
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Registered: July 2009

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Corbyn wrote:
> I have the JRE downloaded and installed. now how do i point eclipse to
> the javaw.exe file?

Read the link that was posted earlier in this thread.

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