diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/cocoa/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/cocoa/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java
index dbf7dbc102e..fdf413b8e94 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/cocoa/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/cocoa/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ public static boolean isLoadable () {
 }
 
 public static void exitIfNotLoadable() {
-	if (!Library.isLoadable ()) {
+	if (!Library.isLoadable (true)) {
 		System.err.println("Libraries for platform " + Platform.PLATFORM + " cannot be loaded because of incompatible environment");
 		System.exit(1);
 	}
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/common/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Library.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/common/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Library.java
index 617831ee00c..32826554f66 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/common/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Library.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/common/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Library.java	
@@ -13,15 +13,10 @@
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.swt.internal;
 
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.net.JarURLConnection;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.net.URLConnection;
-import java.nio.file.Files;
-import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
-import java.util.jar.Attributes;
+import java.io.*;
+import java.net.*;
+import java.nio.file.*;
+import java.util.jar.*;
 
 public class Library {
 
@@ -192,6 +187,10 @@ static boolean extract (String extractToFilePath, String mappedName) {
 }
 
 static boolean isLoadable () {
+	return isLoadable(false);
+}
+
+static boolean isLoadable (boolean ignoreMissingManifest) {
 	URL url = Platform.class.getClassLoader ().getResource ("org/eclipse/swt/internal/Library.class"); //$NON-NLS-1$
 	if (!url.getProtocol ().equals ("jar")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
 		/* SWT is presumably running in a development environment */
@@ -218,6 +217,9 @@ static boolean isLoadable () {
 	if (arch.equals (manifestArch) && os.equals (manifestOS)) {
 		return true;
 	}
+	if (manifestArch == null && manifestOS == null && ignoreMissingManifest) {
+		return true;
+	}
 
 	return false;
 }
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java
index af2f17d7b92..3b81e1802a0 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ public static boolean isLoadable () {
 }
 
 public static void exitIfNotLoadable() {
-	if (!Library.isLoadable ()) {
+	if (!Library.isLoadable (true)) {
 		System.err.println("Libraries for platform " + Platform.PLATFORM + " cannot be loaded because of incompatible environment");
 		System.exit(1);
 	}
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/win32/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/win32/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java
index 0d2b3d46dd6..939c4898686 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/win32/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/win32/org/eclipse/swt/internal/Platform.java	
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ public static boolean isLoadable () {
 }
 
 public static void exitIfNotLoadable() {
-	if (!Library.isLoadable ()) {
+	if (!Library.isLoadable (true)) {
 		System.err.println("Libraries for platform " + Platform.PLATFORM + " cannot be loaded because of incompatible environment");
 		System.exit(1);
 	}