Error Launching Idea. Failed to load JVM DLL C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_112

Question

Whenever I open IntelliJ IDEA i get this error:

but I have that defined and I don\'t know why it wont work:

Any help accepted.

Answer 1

I had this issue when trying to start PHPStorm via the command line (add the phpstorm bin folder to your path, and you should be able to do eg phpstorm.exe .) - my local installed worked fine.

see also https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/working-with-the-ide-features-from-command-line.html:

Add the path to the PhpStorm bin folder to the Path environment variable (for example, C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PhpStorm\bin). After you configured the Path environment variable, you can run the PhpStorm commands.

adding the path to the jdk PHPStorm comes bundled with as JAVA_HOME (setx JAVA_HOME "C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\PhpStorm 2019.1\jre64") doesn't solve the issue as the default phpstorm.exe tries to find a 32-bit jdk

I needed to specifically use the 64-bit phpstorm application
phpstorm64.exe .