I don't think the source is going to shed light on your issue but you can
find it here [1]

The issue is that the 64-bit eclipe.exe is not able to load the 32-bit
version of the library eclipse_1310.so and vise versa.

Tom

[1]
http://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.framework.git/tree/features/org.eclipse.equinox.executable.feature/library





From:   Ji Hoon Baik <uidlm1...@gmail.com>
To:     equinox-dev@eclipse.org
Date:   07/16/2014 11:32 AM
Subject:        [equinox-dev] 32bit vs 64bit launcher
Sent by:        equinox-dev-boun...@eclipse.org



Gents,





Any help will be much appreciated on this matter.





Our firm is in the process of migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit machines, and
my team is refitting our RCP app to run on 64-bit machine.


Initially our RCP app was failing to launch on 64-bit Win7, and we soon
found out that using the x86_64 version of the equinox launcher solved the
problem.





However, we wanted to understand why we weren’t able to run our app while
still using the x32 equinox launcher.


We thought WOW64 should technically emulate 32-bit env and allow this
library to run without problems.


To find an answer, we also looked for source code for eclipse_1310.so jar
(3.6’s shared dll), but to no avail.





Would you be able to shed some light on this matter kindly?


1.       What does this eclipse_1310.so do (and can we get the source code
for it?)


2.       What in it makes it necessary to keep 32-bit and 64-bit versions?





Jason Baik  I  IT - CFT Sales





From: Baik, Jason : Investment Bank (NYK)
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:20 AM
Subject: Theories for why SWS is not running with 32-bit launcher





Reading further, I think it can be two things:





1. eclipse_1017.dll contains code that must run in kernel mode





“Since WOW64 runs in user mode, all 32-bit application code must also run
in user mode. This explains why 32-bit kernel mode device drivers and
applications that rely on them, will not work under Windows 64-bit.”





http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-windows7-vista64-support-32bit-applications.htm








2. Say eclipse_1017.dll runs entirely in user mode and can run on Win7 via
WOW64. However, if the 32-bit and 64-bit eclipse_1017.dll’s have different
search paths for JVMs, SWS might be failing to start due to the inability
to find a JVM.





“No -vm specified


When no -vm is specified, the launcher looks for a virtual machine first in
a jre directory in the root of eclipse and then on the search path. If java
is found in either location, then the launcher looks for a jvm shared
library (jvm.dll on Windows, libjvm.so on *nix platforms) relative to that
java executable.





If a jvm shared library is found the launcher loads it and uses the JNI
invocation API to start the vm.


If no jvm shared library is found, the launcher executes the java launcher
to start the vm in a new process”





http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/launcher.html








If #2 is true, this probably proves why there’s no sign of JVM launching
when our SWS fails on Win7.


it might be worth experimenting:





1.       Check Windows system logs to see if eclipse_1017.dll throws any
errors


2.       Provide an eclipse.ini file that specifies the 32 bit JVM location
explicitly and try launching.
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