I'm trying to follow a guide on installing specific report designer tool according to report development guide
I already finished most part, but just 1 thing doesn't succeed.
According to page 18 I need to change the target to
C:\birt371\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm “C:\Program Files\IBM\Java60\jre\bin\java.exe” –vmargs –Xmx512m
but because my jre is installed in
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_71\bin\java.exe
I changed it to
C:\birt371\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm “C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_71\bin\java.exe” –vmargs –Xmx512m
This gives me an error:
a java runtime environment (JRE) or Java Development kit (JDK) must be available in order to run Eclipse. No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations "C:\Program
If I leave out the target
-vm “C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_71\bin\java.exe” –vmargs –Xmx512m
so my target becomes
C:\birt371\eclipse\eclipse.exe
Eclipse starts up normally, no errors.
The problem:
I can't import my reports and I'm wondering if this last peace of configuration has something to do with it.
The question:
How can I use the configuration required?
Notes: With the previous java versions there wasn't a security in java (control panel), could my problem have something to do with that?
The -vm argument forces a specific Java installation on your machine to be used. Especially useful if you have multiple Java's installed, or Eclipse cannot find Java.
If you have only one Java installed and Eclipse finds it ok, you can simply launch without the -vm argument.
From the Eclipse help for -vm:
The location of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to use to run the Eclipse platform. If not specified, the launcher will attempt to find a JRE. It will first look for a directory called jre as a sibling of the Eclipse executable, and then look on the operating system path. Relative paths are interpreted relative to the directory that eclipse was started from.
If you do need to get -vm working, the recommended way is by editing eclipse.ini and putting -vm on one line and the full path to the vm on the next line. See the eclipse.ini entry on the Eclipse Wiki.