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CodeCannibal
CodeCannibal

Reputation: 344

Gradle command line startup error

I started reading the gradle user guide and tried to reproduce what is done there. So i created a file "build.gradle" and put it in here: "c:\development\build.gradle".

That file includes the following text:

task compile << {
    println 'compiling source'
}

task compileTest(dependsOn: compile) << {
    println 'compiling unit tests'
}

task test(dependsOn: [compile, compileTest]) << {
    println 'running unit tests'
}

task dist(dependsOn: [compile, test]) << {
    println 'building the distribution'
}

Now I opened a Windows command windows and typed in this:

gradle -b C:\development\build.gradle dist test

This is what I got:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • Where: Build file 'C:\development\build.gradle' line: 1

  • What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'development'.

    Could not find property 'compile' on root project 'development'.

  • Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

After some tries I found, that the file itself was been found, but I don't know why it is not executed. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

Answers (1)

CodeCannibal
CodeCannibal

Reputation: 344

I found the solution by myself.

Make sure, that your build file has the same encoding as your operating system. In my case I created a UTF-8 file, but should have been an ISO-file.

After changing to the correct encoding, everything works fine.

Upvotes: 1

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