When installing the blackberry JDE on 64-bit Windows, expect to run into several problems.  There are two big problems that I encountered when trying to get setup.

Problem 1 – Cannot find javaw

After running through the installation and trying to start the JDE, I received an error message saying ‘cannot find javaw’. That was odd to me because I was sure I had JDK installed. The problem was that the Blackberry JDE is not compatible with the 64-bit version of JDK, which is what I had. However, after downloading the 32-bit version of JDK, I found a second problem.

Problem 2 – Cannot find RIMIDEWin32Util.dll

Now I was confused. I was certain I had everything installed properly, but I was still receiving errors. A few forum posts suggested setting path and javahome to their full locations. Open up the following file:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Research In Motion\BlackBerry JDE 6.0.0\bin\ide.bat

Once opened we are going to add 2 lines to the beginning of the file. Change the file from this:

start javaw -Xmx1024M -DRIM_RUNTIME=..\lib -DRIM_BIN=..\bin -jar IDE.jar

to this:

SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\bin;%PATH%
SET JAVAHOME=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_22
start javaw -Xmx1024M -DRIM_RUNTIME=..\lib -DRIM_BIN=..\bin -jar IDE.jar

Save, close and try to start the JDE. This time you should be error free.