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user1120897

Reputation: 272

Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library (Mac)?

I'm trying to use a JRE bundled Eclipse version under Mac. Interestingly, it works when I run ./Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOSX/eclipse

So eclipse is able to find and use the bundled JRE.´

It is a Eclipse Neon, where the Info.plist file contains the -vm argument pointing to ../../../jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib.

However, running via open ./Eclipse.app (or using Finder) I get "Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library".

I do not have any JRE installed on the system. Sadly, using open I cannot get stderr or something as far as I know.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3677

Answers (1)

Algorithm and Blues
Algorithm and Blues

Reputation: 893

In my case the -vm parameter in the .plist file had the wrong format. The parameter name and the value need to be in separate string elements:

<key>Eclipse</key>
<array>
    <string>-vm</string>
    <string>../../../jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib</string>
</array>

As to why it worked when starting the executable file: Apparently the vm parameter is read from the .plist file when running the .app file, but from the eclipse.ini file when starting the executable directly.

Upvotes: 1

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