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How does one determine if eclipse is 32bit or 64bit on a particular platform? [message #518185]

Wed, 03 March 2010 11:37

drew frantz

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I need to do this for win32, linux and solaris versions of eclipse. Is there
a programmaitic way to determine this (osgi property??

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Re: How does one determine if eclipse is 32bit or 64bit on a particular platform? [message #518186 is a reply to message #518185]

Wed, 03 March 2010 11:45

Ed Merks

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Drew,

Platform.getOSArch is one way; not sure it's the best way...

drew wrote:
> I need to do this for win32, linux and solaris versions of eclipse. Is there
> a programmaitic way to determine this (osgi property??
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>
>

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Re: How does one determine if eclipse is 32bit or 64bit on a particular platform? [message #518683 is a reply to message #518186]

Thu, 04 March 2010 18:13

dGlobal

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Drew

Locate the Eclipse folder on your file system. it should be indicated there. Look for something like: eclipse-SDK- 3.5.1-macosx-x86 _64.tar. in this case 64 for 64bit. May look bit different on PC. Try it anyway. Hope it helps.

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