How Do I Run IntelliJ IDEA 9 as a 64-bit Process?

Question

I've noticed that IntelliJ IDEA 9 runs as a 32-bit process in Windows 2003 x64 and would like to configure it to run as a 64-bit process. I did find an article about how to perform this in Mac OSX, but not in Windows.

Update #1: I have the 64-bit version of JDK 1.6.18 installed.

Answer 1

This post might help. It mentions using an idea64.exe launcher on Windows.

Answer 2

My wild guess, is that you only need a 64 bit JDK/JRE and that's it.

Download the x64 version:

JDK x64 windows http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8004/capturadepantalla201001u.png

And then configure IntellJ IDEA to use it.

This guide shows how what to change to set own JDK ( although is a bit dated and things may have changed as of now )

The environment variable IDEA_JDK or JDK_HOME should be set to point to the location where JDK 1.6.0 is installed