Problem running Eclipse

G-Money

I just installed Eclipse but when I try to run it, I am getting the following error:

"A java runtime environment or Java Development Kit must be available in order to run Eclipse. No java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations:
C:\users\g-money\documents\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe
Javaw.exe in your current PATH"

Not sure what's going on here. I already have the java runtime installed.

Do I have to set some variable somewhere in order to get Eclipse to run?

It needs to be in your path/under the eclipse bin folder.

Google the error, there is 100's of pages discussing it.

G-Money

I was Googling it last night but wasn't really finding a clear answer. Although I didn't spend ages on it either.

So I have to install the Java Runtime to the eclipse folder?

lynchie

Add the jre path to your system path.

srsly78

Then verify the path is working by opening a command prompt and trying to run java. If it says command not found then your path is set wrong.

Some gotchas when setting path: having a space between items will terminate the parsing.

%ITEM1 ;%ITEM2 will only have first item in path
%ITEM1;%ITEM2 is correct
"c:\oh hai"; "d:\dev\java shizzle\jdk1.7" won't work
"c:\oh hai";"d:\dev\java shizzle\jdk1.7" is correct

whitesands

As others have said it's the PATH
See here http://java.com/en/download/help/path.xml

sakiboy

This short video might help

http://thenewboston.org/watch.php?cat=31&number=1

G-Money

I eventually got this working. I added the location of javaws.exe to the path which got rid of that error and produced a new one. I ended up installing the Java SDK too and a different version of Eclipse and things started to work then.

Thanks for the help.