Mac OSX 10.6 - SWT Designer not detecting 32 bit JVM

[riz1ali]

Hello,

I am running Mac OSX Snow Leopard and I have set Java 1.6 32 bit as the default JVM via the Java Preferences utility.

I have installed Eclipse 3.5 (32 bit Cocoa) and SWT Designer 7.2.

I created an empty Shell project via SWT Designer but when I run it, I get the following error:

Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM.

I went to the run configurations page and added -d32 as a vm option and now everything is working fine.

I am wondering if it is a bug because Eclipse detects the default 32 bit jvm and so does all other java apps like FrostWire.

Its just a pain to add -d32 to all my new projects. And maybe I am becoming lazy too. LOL.

Thanks a billion!

[Eric Clayberg]

No idea. That sounds like a good question for the Eclipse SWT newsgroup.

[riz1ali]

So far, it looks like adding "-d32" is the only way of telling the JVM to load 32 bit SWT even when launching from within Eclipse. Otherwise, it defaults to 64 bit.

The SWT site regarding deployment on MAC OS X states more information about the -d32 switch:

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/macosx/

Here are some more articles:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php ... 1ed4deada8
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php ... &th=153746
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php ... &th=153755

Hope it helps anyone with this issue.

[Eric Clayberg]

Thanks for the added info.