Gradle - Could not find or load main class

Question

I\'m trying to run a very simple project using Gradle and running into the following error when using the gradlew run command:

could not find or l

Answer 1

If you decided to write your hello.World class in Kotlin, another issue might be that you have to reference it as mainClassName = "hello.WorldKt".

src/main/java/hello/World.kt:

package hello
fun main(args: Array) {
    ...
}
// class World {} // this line is not necessary