Eclipse on Mac, getting “Specified VM install not found” error when trying to build

Question

When I try and do an Ant build on my mac (Snow Leopard, Eclipse 3.6 - Helios) I get an error dialog that says

\"Problem Occured\"
\'Launching proje

Answer 1

Your ant project launcher refers for some reason to a Java 5 environment.

Select "Run as -> Configurations" and locate the ant build. Then indicate you want this configuration to run with a Java 6 JVM.