178111 – Eclipse Launcher Fails on Clean OS Install - missing msvcr71.dll

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Bug 178111 - Eclipse Launcher Fails on Clean OS Install - missing msvcr71.dll

Summary: Eclipse Launcher Fails on Clean OS Install - missing msvcr71.dll

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170135

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Runtime (show other bugs)
Version:	3.3
Hardware:	PC Windows Vista

Importance:	P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox
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Reported:	2007-03-19 14:24 EDT by Adam Cabler
Modified:	2007-03-19 14:40 EDT (History)
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Description Adam Cabler

2007-03-19 14:24:14 EDT

I just did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate (got all available updates), installed java 6 sdk and unzipped a clean eclipse.  When trying to invoke Eclipse, the .exe immediately fails because of a missing mscvr71.dll.  After searching, it appears that the new model from MS requires dependent apps to ship this file with the exe.  Copying the dll from JAVA_HOME to the same dir as eclipse.exe fixed the problem.

Here is a related bug filed against java (marked not a bug): http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509291

I'm marking this as major since this will mean some users [customers] won't easily be able to use eclipse if this isn't fixed.

Comment 1 Andrew Niefer

2007-03-19 14:40:10 EDT

Eclipse itself does not depend on this dll.  The dependency comes from the Java VM.  The launcher was changed to add the java's jre/bin to the search path so that the mscvr71.dll shipped with the jre should be found.  Please try a build I20070319-1005 or newer.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170135 ***