A Java Runtime Environment Or Java Development Kit Must Be Available In Order To Run Eclipse

Possible Duplicate: Eclipse - no Java (JRE) / (JDK) … no virtual machine I installed the Android SDK and it mentioned that I should download eclipse as well, but when I downlo

Solution 1:

Set your computer's PATH (environmental variable) to the bin folder of your JDK. Here's how: Windows 7-Start->Control Panel->System and Security->System->Advanced system settings(panel on the left)->Advanced->Environmental Variables(bottom). Under System Variables find PATH. Select it and hit edit. Point it to the bin of the jdk. If that doesn't work try adding a JAVA_HOME variable to the User variables ( hit new than enter JAVA_HOME for name and the value is the bin folder again). Hopefully that should do it. I feel your pain the same thing happened to me when I first started.