Eclipse keeps crashing

Question

Eclipse keeps crashing for some reason and I'm not sure why. I looked at other answers and tried to increase the heap size, but that didn't work. These are the errors that I'm getting.

I'm on windows 8.1, java 64 bit

Answer 1

Just a guess: You are using the Java installed in Windows\\system32 , but the Java you want to use is a 64bit one. So try the following steps (recommended anyway):

• Go to the directory where your workspace and / or Eclipse is installed.
• Create there a Shortcut, that references the file eclipse.exe in the Eclipse installation.
• Open that shortcut then, and add the following parameters:
  • -vm <path> : Absolute path to the Java runtime that should be used. Ends in (on windows) javaw.exe .
  • -data <path> : References the workspace (absolute or relative) that you were using.
• Start then Eclipse by using this shortcut, and see if that helps.

As a rule, you should use all the time Java 32bit with Eclipse 32bit and Java 64bit with Eclipse 64bit.

See the Help Eclipse for all runtime options.