Reputation: 81

Eclipse Installer returns error message on Sierra

Launching the Eclipse mac installer 64 bit (Eclipse Installer.app downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index-developer.php?oxygen) on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3 fails and displays the alert message :

The JVM shared library "/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/../lib/server/libjvm.dylib" does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol.

My System Preference panel tells me that I have the recommended version of Java (Java 8 update 121).

I tried different things as suggested on different posts (including Eclipse won't start after installing Mac OS X Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10)) :

I made sure to use the 64 bits version
I tried to go back to Java 6 (downloaded from Apple website) but then I get a message telling that I need the latest version of Java (Java 8) to install Eclipse
I tried older versions of Eclipse (Mars, etc.) but the installer returns the same alert message
I tried to re-install Java after editing SystemVersion.plist as suggested here but got the same message.
I installed Java from the jdk8 website and JDK from the oracle website (as suggested by greg-449) but still the same alert message.

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

Alferd Nobel

Reputation: 3979

The following was added in the whatever.app/Contents/Info.plist

<key>Eclipse</key>
<array>
     <string>-vm</string
      <string>/Users/<yourHomeDir>/.sdkman/candidates/java/11.0.2-open/bin/java</string>
      <string>-keyring</string>
      <string>~/.eclipse_keyring</string>
</array>

Note that, I experienced this issue while using Eclipse Mat and JDK Mission Control On Mac OS v11.6 (Big Sur ) ,the dependency was Java 11 .

Upvotes: 1

Holaf

Reputation: 81

I solved the problem by editing the file Contents/Info.plist stored within the Eclipse Installer.app (that you can actually open as a standard folder).

I uncomented this line specifying the vm location

<string>-vm</string><string>/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.8.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java</string>

and I replaced the name of the jdk folder by the one I actually have in my /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines. In my case, 1.8.0.jdk had to be replaced by jdk1.8.0_121.jdk.

Upvotes: 4

greg-449

Reputation: 111216

Install the Java 8 JDK not just the JRE. On macOS the JRE does not provide a complete Java installation.

The current (Java 8 update 121) location for the JDK download is here. You should end up with a jdk-8u121-macosx-x64.dmg file to install. Once installed start the Terminal app and make sure that java -version works.

Upvotes: 2

Eclipse Installer returns error message on Sierra

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