Launch mac eclipse with environment variables set

Question

My company provides an eclipse based development environment which needs some environment variables setting up for the underlying toolchain so multiple versions can be insta

Answer 1

I created the following:

alias start-eclipse='open /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app'

If you run start-eclipse from the command line, all env vars will be picked up. This way, you only need to maintain a single set of env vars across both command-line and eclipse environments.

Answer 2

Link to Eclipse doesn't use the path set in .bashrc

1. Create simple script

#!/bin/bash
source /home/user/.environment_variables
/home/user/eclipse_cpp/eclipse -Duser.name="My Name"

2. Next put your all system variables in file /home/user/.environment_variables (any file you want)

My looks like:

export COCOS_ROOT=/home/user/Projects/edukoala
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/

3. Now you can delete your variables in .bashrc and put line

source /home/user/.environment_variables

Everything works fine :)

Answer 3

None of the above worked for me. you have to set Eclipse -> Preferences -> Terminal -> Arguments set to --login That will instruct Eclipse to login with your account just after opening Terminal.

See screenshot:

Reference: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/comment/4259#comment-4259

Answer 4

Take a look at a related question: Environment variables in Mac OS X.

Basically, this involves the creation of a ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.

Log out and Log in for the environment.plist to get picked up by .App's

Answer 5

As pointed out in https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7045, the environment variables can be loaded automatically, without explicit source ~/.bash_profile by using

#!/usr/bin/env bash -l

instead of

#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_profile

after that, in both cases, follows

exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse" $@

It works great for me, thanks for all previous work.

Answer 6

This worked perfectly in OS X Yosemite:

1. Open /Applications/Automator.
2. When the drop-down appears asking you what kind of document you want to create, choose "Application."
3. In the second-from-the-left list, double-click "Run Shell Script."

4. In the right side delete the "cat" that gets put there automatically, and replace it with this:

   source ~/.bash_profile && /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
   

Now go to File->Save, and save the application to your Applications directory. I named it "Eclipse" with a capital 'E' so as not to conflict with the "eclipse" directory I already had. For good measure, you can even give it the Eclipse icon by selecting the real eclipse app, pressing command-i, selecting the icon, pressing command-c, then selecting the automator "Eclipse" app, pressing command-i, selecting the icon, and pressing command-v.

Now you can open the app, or even drag it to your dock. Note that if you start it, the "real" eclipse will still show up in your dock as a separate icon, but you can't have everything. :)