Eclipse won't launch for macOS Sierra
I have a new MacBook 2016 with the latest macOS Sierra and I am trying to install Eclipse Luna to build one of our legacy apps.
On my personal 2013 Macbook running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5, I was able to just download tar eclipse and unzip it, open the eclipse folder, click on Eclipse.app and it started fine.
However, on my work laptop, I downloaded the same eclipse tar and unpacked it, but when I run Eclipse.app I immediately get the error "Eclipse exits unexpectedly"
If I open the contents of the Eclipse.app package and go to Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/ and run eclipse.exe there, it opens a terminal window and starts Eclipse normally.
I have never encountered this before and cannot find any good links for this issue on the internet.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?
I have JDK 6 and 8 installed in / Library / Java / JavaVirtualMachines / 1.6.0.jkd and jdk1.8.0_121.jdk
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Found a solution on the Eclipse forums.
Sometimes with eclipse you need to unpack tar files directly to your Applications folder in order to install it correctly. Simply dragging / dropping the eclipse folder into your applications directly won't work at times.
After launch:
tar -xf *.tar --directory /Applications
Eclipse is installed and will start correctly.
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