Mac OS, JDK1.7 (and 1.8) does not contain the JNI_CreateJavaVM symbol

Question

I need to run Eclipse Kepler on Mac OS through a JDK 1.7 (This is required by the PyDev plugin).

The problem is that although I have managed to install the 1.7 jdk a

Answer 1

Right click on the Eclipse icon and select 'show package contents'. Inside the contents directory you'll find a file called 'Info.plist'. Scroll down to the bottom of the file till you find this

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Notice the commented out section. Move the jdk path declaration out of the comments section. It should look like this now.

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      -vm/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_20.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java
        

Last step, browse to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines and check the jdk package name present there. Replace the jdk version in the above command with that.

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/{your_jdk_package_name}/Contents/Home/bin/java

Optional: On some machines you may have to close the finder after you've done all this, navigate to the eclipse folder and click on eclipse again for it to work.