Question

I am trying to work with Eclipse Helios on my x64 machine (Im pretty sure now that this problem could occur with any eclipse) but it just doesn’t cooperate.

When I try to run eclipse I get the following:

I have installed

• Helios EE x64 (latest version)
• JDK 1.6.025 (x64)

I have linked my Environment Variables up correctly and tried to compile a Java file through cmd and have succeeded.

Whenever I tried running eclipse i get exit code=13 (required java version=1.5)

I tried running the following in cmd:
-vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\jre\bin"
command as forums suggested

as well as other paths
-vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\bin"
-vm "mypath\jdk1.6.025\jre\bin\javaw.exe"
even
-vm "mypath\jre6\bin" out of desperation
to no avail.

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I am all out of ideas and I wonder if anybody had this problem. I even downloaded the helios x86 version and x86 JDK version yet it did not fix the problem. (I changed the environment variables)
I changed everything back but I’m stuck…

Related Question: Cannot Run Eclipse

Answer 1

It turns out that a directory had an ! in its name and eclipse had a problem with that.

Once I switched the directory (from Desktop which is located in the user directory which had ! in it to C:/ ) everything worked fine. (look at the Djava.class.path in the image located in my the question above for the whole path – it should make it clear what the problem was)

Vista allows you to create a username that contains ! character and then a lot of programs have issues with it

Update

If somebody is still getting this problem even though their path is ok I suggest

• trying to look at the Environment Variables
• then try uninstalling the Helios EE ( or any other version of ee you are running ) and JDK and then reinstalling the 86x versions of both (they should still work on the 64x platform).
• for further explanation look here

Thank you everybody that tried to help