March 3rd, 2008

When you first get started with FDT3 from PowerFlasher http://fdt.powerflasher.com / http://fdt.powerflasher.de you will probably get the message…

Not enough memory to run FDT - add the following line to your eclipse.ini

-Xmx512m

On a windows machine the eclipse.ini is easy to find, and should be in the same folder as eclipse.exe, editing the file in notepad and altering the line

-Xmx256m

to the value above, should be straightforward. If you struggle with opening and saving files in notepad, sadly this blog post isn’t going to give you the file editing 101 that you sorely need.

If you are cool with the file change, restarting Eclipse and opening the FDT perspective will solve the issue.

On a Mac OS X machine things are a tiny bit trickier, the eclipse.ini file is tucked away inside the Eclipse application package, which you probably have stored in your Applications folder.

The quickest way to get at the eclipse.ini file is to Ctrl + Click the Eclipse application and select the *Show Package Contents* option from the menu.

If you then navigate to Contents/MacOS/ inside the package you’ll see eclipse.ini edit it with TextEdit or whatever you like to use to edit text files (TextMate http://macromates.com/, Eclipse, BBEdit?) and change the line

-Xmx256m

to read

-Xmx512m

Save eclipse.ini and close the finder window, restart Eclipse and you should be good to go.

This information is probably in the FDT forum, but I just figured this out five minutes ago and decided to post here instead.