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Java Spring Basics Introduction and Setting up Our Development Tools Overview of Gradle to Manage Dependencies

Posted by Louis Baerentzen
Louis Baerentzen
2,892 Points

Cant get Gradle to run on IntelliJ v2020.1.1 (30Apr 2020 Release)

Setting this up is proving to be tricky compared to the video,.

Creating a file doesn't allow you to see what Gradle wrapper you have & whether it is default. On 2020.1.1 this is done after you've created the file.

Secondly after importing the file and letting it run it cannot find this class after I have been able to access the settings such as the JVM Gradle will use:

`

Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.Verifier `

Everytime I run this in IntelliJ it cant find the default wrapper properties for Gradle stating:

'gradle-wrapper.properties' not found

This is the first time I have used Gradle and I'm not really sure what I can do to fix this.

Any feedback or insight to fix these errors are much appreciated.

Louis Baerentzen
Louis Baerentzen
2,892 Points

https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/10248

If this can give any context to whats happening then please follow the link above. This again is the error I come up against. Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.Verifier

4 Answers

Gabriel Murut
Gabriel Murut
5,418 Points
Gabriel Murut
Gabriel Murut
5,418 Points

Hi Louis,

You need to have the latest version of Gradle, otherwise it is not working on Intellij v2020.1.1

Download last version here: (https://gradle.org/releases/) and install it.

Then you go to IntelliJ:

On File >> Settings >> Build, Execution , Deployment >> Gradle

Change USE GRADLE FROM to Specified location (Here you select your new Gradle installation path)

That should get everything working.

Let me know.

Cheers!

Louis Baerentzen
Louis Baerentzen
2,892 Points

Hello Gabriel,

The path you've shown me to get to this is not a path i can see on my end. I have downloaded the latest version of Gradle but cant use the path you've shown me in this way.

The closest thing i can see is settings.gradle is this what you mean? This is also a file in the project I am currently on.

Louis Baerentzen
Louis Baerentzen
2,892 Points

I have been able to download the latest version as of yesterday. (6.4) it is still telling however

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.

This is not a current release, Im not really sure what to do from here.

Also:

adding StringApplication to my app configuration file is also not working as a result but has done before. I have all the dependencies picked up from Gradle, but it cant find it.

Gabriel Murut
Gabriel Murut
5,418 Points
Gabriel Murut
Gabriel Murut
5,418 Points

Yes that's it, settings.gradle.

At the bottom right you should see 2 options:

USE GRADLE FROM GRADLE JVM

In first option you should see 3 more options

  • 'gradle.wrapper.properties' file
  • 'wrapper' task in gradle built script
  • Specified location

Select Specified location and paste your gradle installation path in the textbox

That should do it.

Louis Baerentzen
Louis Baerentzen
2,892 Points

It has done it thank you very much for helping. Ive got 6.4 in the install path now and can run my setup too!

Many thanks again for pointing me through this Gabriel.

Kind Regards Louis

alastair cooper
alastair cooper
30,617 Points
alastair cooper
alastair cooper
30,617 Points

I had the same problem but solved it as follows.

File --> Settings go to the plugins tab and select Gradle. Restart Intellij and you are good to go (Delete the giflib directory you have already created before you restart Intelli if you want to use the same name)