How to fix the Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library for windows 7?

Question

I am getting the following error, while launching Eclipse:

The eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library.

Previously Eclipse was working fine when I had jre6 installed on my pc. After installing jre7 update 25, I am no longer able to launch Eclipse.

My Eclipse ini-file has these lines:

-startup
plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080509-1800.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.1.R36x_v20100810 

How do I fix this error? Any help would be great.

Answer 1

Had similar issue, which was a result of update. Please make sure that names of libraries mentioned in eclipse.ini and the actual names of these files on your disk match exactly.

-startup
plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080509-1800.jar

--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.1.R36x_v20100810

Here is the post that I used to fix this issue on my system http://codewithgeeks.blogspot.in/2013/11/fixing-eclipse-executable-launcher-was.html