[news.eclipse.newcomer] Problem with C++ plugin in Eclipse

["Andrea" <andie_asa@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried to download the C++ plug-in and set to install the gcc on my 
computer. When changing the PATH I went to Control Panel-SYSTEM-Advanced 
Tab-Environment variables. I then deleted the path variable so that it 
referred to the folder where gcc was. I used the command line to check 
whether it was installed properly and that the PATH variable was changed 
correctly, which was successful. I then went to open Eclipse to use the 
update manager to update it to include the C++ plug-in but I was unable to 
open it, as the following error msg came up.



A Java Runtime Environment(JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) must be 
available in order to run Eclipse. No virtual machine was found after 
searching eclipse-SDK-3.0-win32\eclipse\jre\bin\javaw.exe'javaw.exe' in your 
current path.



I checked whether the JAVA runtime environment was still on my system by 
opening other programming environments and compiling Java projects, which 
was okay. As a result I changed the path variable back to what was there 
before but I am still having the same problem with Eclipse and cannot open 
it at all. Do you have any suggestions as how I can solve this problem or 
how to change the path so that it includes java and C++?