OSX 10.9 Mavericks and Eclipse Kepler (4.3.2) or M6 Eclipse Luna (4.4)

Question

How to get Eclipse running on OSX 10.9? I have tried some of the solutions mentioned in this thread to no avail: How do I run Eclipse using Oracle's new 1.7 JDK for the Mac?

• editing eclipse.ini, adding in

vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java just before the -vmargs

• editing the Info.plist and adding the full path to the Oracle SDK, checked if syntax was correct by double clicking and succesfully opening it and verified that the path was correct.

• adding 4 capabilities to the JDK:

              <string>CommandLine</string>
              <string>JNI</string>
              <string>BundledApp</string>
              <string>WebStart</string>
              <string>Applets</string> 
  

• The accepted solution, as far as running the custom shell script, to no avail: shell script contents (correct SDK / Launcher paths): https://www.dropbox.com/s/5we8kw3m3aeln0o/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.59.10.png the awesome result of.... nothing: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u8uz7043yh2h42n/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.59.04.png

Similar question to this thread: Mavericks and JVM Alert

I have the Oracle JDK 1.7: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqe6pih8wiwzygk/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.16.52.png

It is, apparently, the only Java SDK installation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ijf31d957u0qujy/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.17.14.png

I can run java and javac in the Terminal, have $JAVA_HOME set also: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzt2oaelkz1vq4o/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.21.09.png

This is the error i am getting: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfv51e5s7m8lhi9/Screenshot%202014-03-29%2000.17.38.png

I am on a Macbook Pro mid 2010 model running Mavericks 10.9.2 and trying to get the mentioned Eclipse versions running, which somehow is being made practically impossible. How to unfrak this clusterfrak?

Answer 1

The error message is pointing to an openJDK install not the Oracle install.

The eclipse.ini entry must have -vm on a separate line from the path

-vm 
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

although if the correct Java is the default it should not be necessary.