Thursday, September 22, 2011

Eclipse/ANT Error Specified VM install not found



My company provided me new laptop and happily I moved from my old rusted desktop to new shining, powerful and portable laptop. Everything was copied without problem and I started working. But is not it strange to see everything working perfectly fine? I was stunned but happy as well. 

I started using the installed application. Eclipse was working fine until I tried building (Using ant) my application. Ant showed me a scary popup displaying "Specified VM Not found..." 



Simple solution, there is JDK/JRE problem with the system. Correct the JRE and JDK of the project. I did, but it did not work. I googled and found following 2 solutions.

You might even face this problem when you upgrade ant plug-in.

Solution 1
Remove the file which stores build information about the project and restart the eclipse. You can find the respective file in "${PROJECT_WORKSPACE}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.debug.core/.launches/${PROJECT_NAME} build.xml.launch"

Solution 2 (Location and Screen Shot may differ for different Eclipse Version. Following screen shot and paths are valid for Eclipse Version 3.7)

Go to RUN->External Tools ->External Tools Configurations… 


It will open console below. Select your build.xml(in my case it is abc build.xml). Move to JRE tab. 



Select the appropriate JRE.



Apply the changes and run the build xml. No need to restart eclipse, and you will not face the problem again.

Bmmm, Solved. Saved time.

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29 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 22, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    :D Antified...

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2012 at 1:54 AM

    Thanks, saved my day! :)

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  3. AnonymousJune 4, 2012 at 7:25 AM

    Thanks =D !

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  4. Andrew SpencerJune 5, 2012 at 7:23 AM

    Thankyou so much for posting this and saving me a headache.

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  5. Dilip MJune 20, 2012 at 5:45 AM

    Thanks you so much!!

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  6. AnonymousJune 26, 2012 at 1:04 PM

    The thread that keeps on giving. Thank you!

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  7. AnonymousAugust 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM

    Thanks a lot for this suggestion. It helped a lot!
    George

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  8. AnonymousAugust 31, 2012 at 10:44 AM

    Thank you. Saved my day

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  9. Vipin BardiaSeptember 24, 2012 at 8:59 PM

    Thanks ... :)

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  10. AnonymousDecember 2, 2012 at 9:45 AM

    +1 internet for you.

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  11. ArunJanuary 2, 2013 at 5:42 PM

    Solution 2 neat. Thx!

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  12. AnonymousJanuary 21, 2013 at 6:35 PM

    Thanks!!!!

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  13. ShravanJanuary 30, 2013 at 8:40 AM

    SWEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT !!!! Saved me pain in my a**

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  14. Vishal JainFebruary 7, 2013 at 2:40 AM

    I have not ever received so many thanks on a single post... It is my pleasure to help you all. :)

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  15. AnonymousFebruary 21, 2013 at 3:05 AM

    Thanks for your post. It helped a lot.

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  16. AnonymousMarch 20, 2013 at 9:21 PM

    Thank You.!! :)

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  17. AnonymousMarch 21, 2013 at 12:03 PM

    Fixed it for me! Thanks!

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  18. SohilApril 7, 2013 at 2:56 AM

    Thank you mahn! Thank you very much! :)

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  19. AnonymousApril 13, 2013 at 9:57 PM

    Wow!! Thanks a lot..

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  20. UnknownApril 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM

    Maybe the 3rd time I've used your article to solve this. Thank you much!!

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  21. AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 2:35 AM

    thanks it worked for me souktion 2

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  22. skillsharedMay 23, 2013 at 2:41 AM

    Thank you

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  23. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 6:51 AM

    many thanks for you help

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  24. UnknownApril 3, 2014 at 3:14 AM

    Thanks you.. it worked for me..

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  25. UnknownMay 7, 2014 at 3:00 AM

    Thank you..It helped a lot.

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  26. João SpínolaJune 9, 2014 at 8:50 AM

    Thank you, it was a big help!

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  27. AnonymousJune 13, 2014 at 12:04 AM

    Really good!
    Thanks

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  28. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2014 at 11:57 PM

    Thank you! Solution number 2 is great!

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  29. AnonymousJanuary 20, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    Thank you

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