Styjun

My eclipse won't start since a few days. If I manage to get one error message at start to go away, it will be another new one, or another that I thought I'd already fixed. I do not know what exactly I've done so far, but I'll summarize as far as I remember. One thing you should know: it was very much.

I tried to:

1. Setting the -Xms[WXYZ] variable to another values, like 256M, 512M, 1024M and 2048M in the

- eclipse.ini

- environment variables

2. Added in eclipse.ini before -vmargs

- -vm [absolute path to my jdkbinjavaw.exe]

- -vm [absolute path to my jrebinserverjvm.dll]

3. Changed environment variables

- I don't know anymore what I've done there

4. At some point I tried something with the JAVA_HOME environment variable, but it does not helped at all.

I think that I've done so far all of these imaginable combinations.

I've deleted eclipse and reinstalled JRE and JDK, I think I've got nothing left.

Here are all of this pictures on imgur itself (because I can't post images).

It were a great help if anyone could help me with that problem.

Edit: The current error message is:

Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine.

Edit 02: Changed system variable _JAVA_OPTIONS from value in picture to -Xms512M

Edit 03: If i start eclipse with
[path to eclipse]eclipse -vm C:Program FilesJavajre1.8.0_202binjavaw.exe it stated that a runtime environment or development kit has to be available in order to run eclipse. It give me just C:Program as location. However, if I take the absolute path and write it into the eclipse.ini, i get the same error message (Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine.)

if possible remove -vm P:Programsjdk1.6bin line
more details in here Eclipse error: 'Failed to create the Java Virtual Machine'

Open the Control Panel
■ Go to System
■ Go to Advanced Systems Properties
■ Then Environment Variables
■ In System Variables, click Add
■ New Variable Name: _JAVA_OPTIONS
■ New Variable Value: -Xmx512M
■ Click OK
That's it, your Java program should now be able to execute properly.
For those interested, Java -Xmx/s is the configuration parameter that control the amount of memory Java uses.

■ Xmx sets the maximum heap memory size
■ Xms sets the minimum heap memory size
See http://www.jafaloo.com/2011/10/30/java-xmx-memory-settings/ for more details on Java Heap memory size and parameters.

I've done it.

The temporary newest Version of eclipse (2019-03) does NOT match with the newest Versions of JDK or JRE, as one of my lecturer told me.

So I head back to my favourite Version of eclipse; Luna. And I've got to delete all Java Version on my PC.

I have now Java 8 Update 202 on my PC. You can find it at this link, it is the jdk-8u201-windows-x64 (for Win10 64-bit) file.

JRE is included in this Version of Java.

Another zip`s of eclipse can be found at this link.

In my case, I had to configure the eclipse.ini file again:

C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_201jrebinserverjvm.dll
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM 

I had to correct the -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=-Line and had to add the absolute path to my jvm.dll, as I had add the --add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM-line. I can't tell you if this is necessary.

You can check your Java Version via CMD-> java -version

Now I had to get to the system environment variables and had to change:
JAVA_OPTIONS to Value -Xms256m -Xms512m
JAVA_HOME to C:Program FilesJavajre1.8.0_202bin

and had to add to the Path: C:Program FilesJavajdk1.8.0_201bin and C:Program FilesJavajre1.8.0_202bin

I could've set all [...]jre1.8.0_202bin[...] to [...]Javajdk1.8.0_201jrebin, but I don't wanted anymore, I'm just happy to fixed it finally.

I had a similar problem on Windows 10. I upgraded my JDK to version 8 update 211 and added the following line to eclipse.ini just before the line containing -vmargs:

-vm
C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_211/bin/javaw.exe

It resolved the problem. Please consider using forward slash i.e. / instead of backslash.