Eclipse and Eclipse-installer fail to run when using Corretto 8

[alvdavi]

Description

Attempting to run eclipse or eclipse-installer with corretto8 as the default JDK in Mac 10.12.6 fails while displaying a "Failed to Create the Java Virtual Machine error" popup.

Output when running:

$ /Volumes/Eclipse\ Installer/Eclipse\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse-inst

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home
Error: could not find libjava.dylib
Failed to GetJREPath()

libjava.dylib is currently present in:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libjava.dylib

Problem does not happen with Oracle/Zulu/AdoptOpenJDK

To Reproduce

Install corretto and another JDK8 implementation
Try:

$ /Applications/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java

The program failed with:

Error: could not find libjava.dylib
Failed to GetJREPath()

Expected behavior

Eclipse and Eclipse-Installer should start when using corretto

Platform information

OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
Version: build 1.8.0_192-amazon-corretto-preview-b12

[ziyiluo]

This is a symlink issue. The libjli.dylib under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/MacOS should be a symlink to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib but was dereferenced. This issue is planned to be fixed in the next release. Recreating the symlink solves the issue:

sudo ln -sf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jli/libjli.dylib /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/amazon-corretto-8.jdk/Contents/MacOS

[ziyiluo]

This issue is fixed in the new Corretto preview release (1.8.0_192-amazon-corretto-preview2-b12). Change log of this release is now available. You can find the builds in the Corretto download page. Please let us know if you have any further questions. We appreciate your report!