[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Starting RCP app with specified vm w/o h

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This would rely on using a shell script to invoke the launcher with -vm 
on the command line instead of having the -vm in the launcher.ini file.

The launcher currently does not do environment variable substitution in 
either the .ini file, or in the .ee files.

As for required entries in the .ee file, it is really either:
ee.vm.library & ee.library.path  for JNI launching
or
ee.executable & ee.executable.console  for spawning the vm in a separate 
process.  (The ee.executable.console is only need for -console, 
-consoleLog, -debug).

-Andrew

Achim Lörke wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:28:27 +0200, Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to control the startup of my RCP app to
> > use a specified Java vm, therefore the -vm  runtime option
> > seems appropriate. Problem is: A priori it is unknown,
> > *which* absolute or relative path the wanted java vm will
> > have (because that depends on the actual installation),
> > but it seems that the -vm parameter does not accept a
> > specified environment variable (which could be set by the
> > installation) - is that assertion correct?
>
> What platform are you working on? 
>
> On Linux/Unix/OS X the environment variable would be substituted by
> the shell, i.e. this should work right out of the box.
>
> On MS Windows you can specify environment variables in shortcuts, i.e.
> for entries in the Programs entry on the Start button, or using
> cmd.exe. You have to use the %variable_name% notation for this to
> work. 
> Example: C:\devapps\eclipse\eclipse341\eclipse.exe -configuration
> "%appdata%\eclipse34"
>
> For other system your guess is as good as mine.
>
>
> Achim