Re: eclipse java/windows error

Tomas Uribe wrote:
> Hello. This might be a known bug, but here it is:
> 
> When I try to start the java vm from eclipse 5.6 on a windows machine, I
> get:
> 
> [eclipse 3]: start_vc(X).
> system interface error: Permission denied in exec("\"c:\\Program Files\\java\\j2
> re1.4.2_01\"\\bin\\javaw -Xmx256m -classpath C:\\Program Files\\ECLiPSe 5.6\\lib
> \\eclipse.jar;C:\\Program Files\\ECLiPSe 5.6\\lib\\grappa1_2.jar;C:\\Program Fil
> es\\ECLiPSe 5.6\\lib\\visualisation.jar;\"c:\\Program Files\\java\\j2re1.4.2_01\
> "\\lib\\rt.jar com.parctechnologies.eclipse.visualisation.RemoteVisClient HICKOR
> Y 1114", [null, StdOut, null], _333)
> Abort
> [eclipse 4]:
> 
> The same thing happens when I try to start the visualisation client from
> the TCL/TK interface.


These problems will be properly fixed in Eclipse 5.7 (December).

For the moment, do the following:

- start the Windows registry editor (Start->Run, type 'regedit', Ok)

- go to the branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IC-Parc\Eclipse\5.6

- change the entries to "short DOS pathnames", i.e. change ECLIPSEDIR from
	C:\Program Files\ECLiPSe 5.6
   to
	C:\PROGRA~1\ECLiPS~1.6

   and JRE_HOME from
	C:\Program Files\java\j2re1.4.2_01
   to
	C:\PROGRA~1\java\J2RE14~1.2_0


> 
> There seems to be something wrong with the way the quotes (") are handled,
> they appear in the middle of the path to javaw, rather than surround it...

Actually, that's not the problem, but part of our earlier attempts to fix it...


Hope that helps,
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