How To: 64-bit Eclipse + 64-bit Windows 7

WARNING: There are tutorials out there that tell you to do weird things like rename eclipse.exe to eclipse1.exe or change the eclipse.ini configuration file — none of these steps are necessary and from what I can tell, even useful.

It’s really simple.

Download 64-bit JRE: here / possibly outdated direct link

Install the JRE.

Download 64-bit Eclipse: here / possibly outdated direct link

Extract Eclipse.

You’re good to go.

Note: If you get an error saying it can’t find the JVM in the path it searched:

  • Click the windows button, type “environment variables” (you might get away with just “env”) then click the link that says: “Edit the system environment variables” — the System Properties dialog comes up.
  • Click Environment Variables…
  • On the bottom half of the Environment Variables dialog, scroll for the PATH variable.
  • Click the PATH variable and then click Edit…
  • At the end of the line, add a semicolon and then the path to your JVM (javaw.exe) — for reference mine was: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin
Posted Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 under tips and tricks, windows.

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  2. Lawrence Knowlton says:
    July 21, 2011 at 3:38 am

    I also had to add a double quote at the beginning of the path addition, since there is a space in the path name.

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