Eclipse executable launcher error: Unable to locate companion shared library

Question

I had Eclipse Indigo installed on my computer with the Android plugin and it was working perfectly for about two weeks. Today, I updated java and quicktime then restarted my

Answer 1

remove it and run eclipse-installer again without root

Answer 2

I got similar error sometime back. I had copied the eclipse setup from another laptop to mine. The issue with my setup was that path of the "--launcher.library" in the eclipse.ini file. The path in --launcher.library was that of the old machine and hence I was getting the error

I changed the path of "--launcher.library" in eclipse.ini to the path of eclipse on my laptop and the issue got resolved. I hope this is helpful to someone is getting this error.

Answer 3

That sounds pretty bad and weird. But reinstalling isn't that hard - download, unzip, change the default memory allocation, run Eclipse, install necessary plugins and features.

And almost all of the important preferences are in your workspace. The only important one I can think of outside of the workspace is the aforementioned memory allocation, which you can set on the command line or in the ECLIPSE.INI file.

Answer 4

My experience and advice: Install Eclipse Juno on C: drive.

After download the zip, put it on C:, click the right mouse button -> extract here. Then a folder called eclipse will be created in C: drive.

Then go to Eclipse executable, run it, and all will be ok.

Answer 5

Try running eclipse.exe as administrator or using Eclipse Helios.

Answer 6

This happened to me when I tried to open eclipse.exe before the .zip file finished extracting. Make sure all dependencies are unzipped or unpacked before opening the .exe.