Shown above is the correct setting for my Mac that now works. Now edit eclipse.ini and look for the highlighted line: Now navigate to the eclipse.ini shown below: Anyway the solution was a simple extension of the above steps.įind your eclipse.app and CTRL right click on it, you will then see a ‘Show Package Contents’ option I hadn’t used Eclipse on the affected Mac for a few weeks so I’m not sure if it was broken by a Java update, an OSX update or even an Eclipse update. To prove it here’s the Eclipse About box to show Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 successfully running on OS X 10.10.3.Ī recent update broke the above solution. Now clicking on the Eclipse icon will successfully launch Eclipse. Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.45-b02, mixed mode) Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_45-b14) Once complete try the Java -version command again from the command line to prove the install has been successful.
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Clicking on More info will take you through to the Oracle Java download site.įrom here download the Mac OS X 64 bit JDK and then when the download has completed click on the dmg file in the download loads directory and follow the install instructions. I knew I had the latest version of Java runtime (JRE) installed so had expected the Java -version command to display Java 8. Note that it’s asking you to install a JDK.
In my case then displayed the message, To use the “java” command-line tool you need to install a JDK.
Try going to the OS X Command line and enter the command java -version Common sense says there has to be a better solution. It’s out of support and now has a number of serious security issues. It gave the highly misleading error message To open “eclipse” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. After downloading Eclipse (Luna 4.4.2) on Max OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite it failed to start-up.