Launching Squirrel SQL client on Mac OS

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I am Launching SQuirrel SQL on Mac OS X(El Capitan) that has JDK1.8 on it produces an error message saying the JDK-version should be at least 1.6. It then quits. SQL client version is 3.7. How do I resolve this?

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3 Answers

I ran into similar issue and the following change fixed the issue. Open the Application Folder in finder and open the App Package Contents and navigate to Contents/MacOS/. Open the squirrel-sql.sh file and update the value of "SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME" around line 56.

Out of box, the value would be

SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME=`dirname "$0"`/Contents/Resources/Java

Update this to

SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME='/Applications/SQuirreLSQL.app/Contents/Resources/Java'

Thanks to https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrel-sql/bugs/1232/#6bc6

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The shell script now comes with Alternative solutions ready. Alternative 2 works for me. Just commented out Alternative 1 and uncommented the 2.

#Alternative 1
#SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME=`dirname "$0"`/Contents/Resources/Java

#Alternative 2
SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME=$(echo $ABSPATH | grep -o '^/.*/Contents/')Resources/Java

#Alternative 3
#SQUIRREL_SQL_HOME=`/Applications/SQuirreLSQL.app/Contents/Resources/Java'

Open the script file as in @vijay answer.

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