Eclipse executable launcher error: Unable to locate companion shared library

That sounds pretty bad and weird. But reinstalling isn’t that hard – download, unzip, change the default memory allocation, run Eclipse, install necessary plugins and features. And almost all of the important preferences are in your workspace. The only important one I can think of outside of the workspace is the aforementioned memory allocation, which … Read more

“please check gdb is codesigned – see taskgated(8)” – How to get gdb installed with homebrew code signed?

This error occurs because OSX implements a pid access policy which requires a digital signature for binaries to access other processes pids. To enable gdb access to other processes, we must first code sign the binary. This signature depends on a particular certificate, which the user must create and register with the system. To create … Read more

Why “no projects found to import”?

Eclipse is looking for eclipse projects, meaning its is searching for eclipse-specific files in the root directory, namely .project and .classpath. You either gave Eclipse the wrong directory (if you are importing a eclipse project) or you actually want to create a new project from existing source(new->java project->create project from existing source). I think you probably want the … Read more

Eclipse EGit Checkout conflict with files: – EGit doesn’t want to continue

Situation: You have local uncommitted changes You pull from the master repo You get the error “Checkout conflict with files: xy” Solution: Stage and commit (at least) the files xy Pull again If automerge is possible, everything is ok. If not, the pull merges the files and inserts the merge-conflict markers (<<<<<<, >>>>) Manually edit … Read more