Importing Grails project to IntelliJ IDEA using Gradle fails

Question

When importing a Grails 3+ project to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the Gradle build stops at “Starting Gradle Daemon...”.

Screenshot of IntelliJ build window

This happens when a new Grails 3 project is created using the command “grails create-app projectName” and imported to IntelliJ IDEA using Gradle.

My system configuration:

• macOS Catalina
• IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2020.1
• Java 8
• Grails 3.3.5
• Groovy 2.4.15

The Gradle build fails with no other error messages.

“gradle”, “./gradlew”, “./gradlew bootRun” commands work as expected on the terminal.

Answer 1

Check the Gradle JVM which is set for project and make sure it is compatible for the Gradle version used in project:

Try setting different JDKs including the 1.8 JDK there.