[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: How to run Eclipse on Vista?

[David Wegener <wegener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I just download eclipse classic on to a new vista notebook and tried to to 
> unzip it the vista unzip program said it needed two hours!
>
> So then I used cygwin to unzip it in a few minutes. Wow! I wonder what is 
> wrong with the vista unzip program?
>
> Anyway, then tried to run eclipse.exe and recieved this error message in a 
> dialog box:
>
> "The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate the companion shared 
> library".
>
> So then I thought something was wrong with either the cygwin unzip or the 
> zip file I had downloaded. So I copied the expanded eclipse directory from 
> my desktop machine where eclipse SDK 3.3 seems to running running fine. I 
> run windows explorer again on the eclipse directory and click on eclipse.exe 
> again and I get the same dialog box!
>
> How do we run eclipse? I thought eclipse was entirely self contained with 
> its own JRE and javac.
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried 
Make sure that you preserve folder structure when you unzip.  The folder 
you unzipped into should have a number of sub folders.