Hi guys. Today I tried setting up Eclipse and it worked just fine. But then I was instructed by a tutorial to install the JDK. So I went to sun.com and grabbed the bundle with Netbeans. During the installation my computer rebooted without warning and Netbeans was nowhere to be found, so I think there was something screwed up with the installer. (I installed the bundle because I wanted to try out both IDEs)
I decided to do a fresh reinstall of the JRE and JDK. I uninstalled all Java packages I had installed, rebooted, and reinstalled the newest versions of each. This time I just grabbed the JDK only, not the bundle. Here you can see they are installed:
However now when I try to start up Eclipse I get this error message:
And Java isn’t working in Firefox anymore either. When I go to http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml it says the Java Runtime Environment is not working on my system. I have it enabled in my Firefox settings, and I enabled it in the Java settings in my control panel.
I’m running Vista x64 as Administrator. Any ideas why this is giving me so many problems?
UPDATE:
I installed Netbeans from the official Netbeans site and it is working fine… I ran a sample program. So somewhere along the lines Java isn’t registering itself with Windows or something.
- If I'm correct 32-bit opengl and/or openal won't work with 64-bit Java. You need 32-bit Java to run JME or 64-bit opengl and openal which I think has been released lately and integrated with JME also.
1.You need to register Java manually. Right-click My Computer->Properties->Advanced->Environment variables->Create an user variable called PATH (if it exists already, edit it and put ; at the end of last value)->add the value that points to your jdk installation bin directory, I have G:Program FilesJavajdk1.6.0_12bin in the variable value textbox.
Oh, thanks a lot.
About the 64bit thing… as far as I know, it works fine. I was able to run all the demos on the site.
EDIT: Nevermind, you're right… I tested the demos before installing the 64bit version of Java. Is this being worked on right now?
It's easier for you to install 32-bit Java. I don't know how to make JME work with 64-bit Java. Somebody more experienced can tell u how or you can search the forum for 64-bit.
I believe the version of jME in SVN uses LWJGL2.1 which supports Windows 64. You must install a 64 bit JVM though.