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

Just for those who may have been stuck after doing both tasks described above and still seeing the same error message: I was certain that I had downloaded 64-bit Eclipse, but it turns out I had the 32-bit version. After downloading 64-bit, everything worked!