Failed to load the JNI shared library on starting Eclipse

This usually happens if you have a 32- vs. 64-bit mismatch between the installed JDK and Eclipse versions!

Your version of Eclipse is trying to access a 32-bit JDK (as indicated by C:\Program Files (x86)), but either fails because Eclipse is expecting a 64-bit JDK or because the 32-bit JDK is missing - consequently you'll need to make sure to match the Eclipse and JDK versions bit wise accordingly.

I had installed both JDK and Eclipse 64-bit versions, but had the same issue...

Finally I discovered that my %PATH% system variable didn't include the folder. Don't forget to change it to the correct folder where your JDK\bin is installed. Worked for me.

If you have downloaded 64-bit Eclipse and a 64-bit JDK/JRE, check the availablity of javaw.exe for 64-bit.

In my case it was in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin

I have extracted Eclipse to the c:\eclipse folder; within that the eclipse.ini file is available. Replace the contents of that file with the following:

-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe
-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.3.R34x_v20081215-1030.jar
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xmx700m
-XX:MaxPermSize=690M

Leave the new line in between the -vm flag and the value. It worked for me.

I had a 64 bit Eclipse and 32 bit Java and had the same issue. After installing 64 bit Java and updating system path, no issues.