flash - MXMLC and 64bit JRE

Question

Are there any workarounds to get the Flex compiler to work with a 64bit JRE? If I use an MXMLC task in an Ant buildfile in Eclipse it works fine but if I try to use MXMLC from the command line (or try the Run... command from FDT in Eclipse) it fails, telling me ...

"Error loading: C:Program FilesJavajrrt-1.6.0jreinjrockitjvm.dll"

(this is with a 64bit JRockit runtime but that shouldn't matter).

Answer 1

There is currently no support for using the Flex compiler with the 64 bit JRE. Instead, have the compiler use a 32 bit JRE.

To do so, you'll need to edit the jvm.config file located in FLEX_HOMEin. Within jvm.config, set java.home to the location of a 32bit JRE. If you don't already have a 32bit JRE, download it.

Example:

java.home=C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jre6

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