Installed Git + EGit and Then "No Companion Library Found" Error Occurs!

Question

Trying to use git with eclipse.

Then installed the EGit tool.

I then see:

The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.

Very confused. Any help is greatly appreciated! :D

Egit ought to be in pure Java, so teoretically you wouldn't need "normal" git. (Of course I may miss something important here.) — Piotr Findeisen, May 13 '11 at 21:36

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 09:59

It can be:

an issue of right (755 not set) as in this thread (for windows, but the idea is the same for MacOs)
or an incorrect launcher in the eclipse.ini (or this thread, although I recommend, with Eclipse3.5 or 3.6, to remove any mention of said launcher, as in this eclipse.ini)

I don't think this is directly related to Git itself.

As usual, with 64bits installation, check you do have a 64bits JVM launching your 64bits Eclipse.

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