Failed to load the JNI shared Library (JDK)

Question

When I try opening Eclipse, a pop-up dialog states:

Failed to load the JNI shared library \"C:/JDK/bin/client/jvm.dll\"`.

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Answer 1

I had a similar problem. It was solved doing the following.

• Move Eclipse to Program Files (not to Program Files (x86)).
• Remove the path to the 32-bit version of Java from the 'path' environment variable.

I have both versions of Java installed, but Eclipse kept trying to use the 32-bit one.