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Eclipse (Scala configuration) fails to create JVM on Win7 64-bit

I am setting up a VM to begin working with Scala. My machine runs Windows 7 64-bit.

I have installed Eclipse 64-bit as configured at scala-ide.org. Actually, I just unzipped it into c:\program files\eclipse.

I then installed Java 1.7. Since I was running 32-bit IE, the 32-bit version installed. Running into trouble with that (Eclipse insisting it couldn't find a JVM) I installed Java 1.7, 64-bit.

So I have 64-bit Windows, Eclipse, and Java. I added the 64-bit Java bin directory to my PATH variable. I also put that path in the eclipse.ini file.
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin

When I start Eclipse, it says:
Error: Could not create the java Virtual Machine
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

I read that this is usually a memory constraint. But Task Manager reports 2100 MB free.
Just in case, I changed
-Xmx1048m
to
-Xmx512m

No better.

What am I overlooking?

Thanks!

Sharon Seth

what happens when you run java.exe from the command line?

Daniel Wilson

ASKER

I've tried
java -version
and it tells me I have the 64-bit version of Java 7.something.

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Sharon Seth

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Daniel Wilson

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No change, but this is noteworthy.

After the box that lists the 2 errors, a LONG message box comes up saying:

Java was started but returned exit code=1
c:\windows\system32\javaw.exe
-Xmx512m
-Xms100m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-vm c:\program files\java\jre\bin\javaw.exe
etc.

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So ... I think it's not using java.exe or javaw.exe where I tell it to, but in system32.

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Daniel Wilson

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Specifying the EXE in the -VM path did not solve it, but led me to the solution.