Eclipse - No virtual machine found at location

A Java Runtime Environment or Java Development Kit must be available in order to ru开发者_开发技巧n Eclipse. No Java Virtual Machine is found after searching the following location:

c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_18/jre/bin

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Point into your jdk bin folder: c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_18/bin rather than the jre/bin

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Check the PATH environment variable from your system properties, you might have an entry c:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_18/jre/bin, is this path accessible or even actually there?

Open the eclipse.ini file on the root directory of eclipse. Add an entry as below

-vm
C:\Backups\jdk1.6.0_13\bin\javaw.exe

Note the line break between the -vm and the actual path. On other note, Eclipse uses its own built-in compiler and doesnt really need the jdk.