Failed to load the JNI shared library on starting Eclipse
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I downloaded the latest version of Eclipse, but I can not start it. The error message I get is: Failed to load the JNI shared library "C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin..\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll". How do I fix this? I use 64-bit Windows, 32-bit JDK, and downloaded 64-bit Eclipse.
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Fix for: Failed to load the JNI shared library on starting Eclipse
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This usually happens if you have a 32- vs. 64-bit mismatch between the installed JDK and Eclipse versions! Your version of Eclipse is trying to access a 32-bit JDK (as indicated by C:\Program Files (x86)), but either fails because Eclipse is expecti…
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