How to define Gradle's home in IDEA?

Question

I am trying to import a Gradle project into IntelliJ, and when I get to the Gradle Home textbox, it is not automatically populated, nor will typing in the path

Answer 1

I had some weird errors where it could not find my class, I had to right click on my src folder (was red) to "Make Directory as" -> Source Folder Root

Answer 2

In case you are using Mac, most probably your gradle home should be /usr/local/gradle-2.0 for example.

In preference of IDEA search for gradle and set gradle home as given above. It should work

Answer 3

Installed on a Mac via Homebrew, the path

/usr/local/opt/gradle/libexec

is preferable to

/usr/local/Cellar/gradle/X.X/libexec

since the former will survive version upgrades.

Answer 4

If you are using IntelliJ, just do the following.

1. Close the project
2. (re)Open the project
3. you will see "Import gradle project" message on the right bottom. click.
4. select "Use default gradle wrapper". not "Use local gradle distribution"

That's all.

Answer 5

This is instruction for MAC only. I had the same problem. I solved it by configuring $GRADLE_HOME in .bash_profile. Here's how you do it:

• Open .bash_profile (usually it's located in the user’s home directory).
• Add the following lines to update $PATH variable: export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/local/opt/gradle/libexec export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
• Save it.
• Apply your changes by running source .bash_profile

I wrote my own article with instruction in a case if somebody will encounter the same problem.

Answer 6

You can write a simple gradle script to print your GRADLE_HOME directory.

task getHomeDir {
    doLast {
        println gradle.gradleHomeDir
    }
}

and name it build.gradle.

Then run it with:

gradle getHomeDir

If you installed with homebrew, use brew info gradle to find the base path (i.e. /usr/local/Cellar/gradle/1.10/), and just append libexec.

The same task in Kotlin in case you use build.gradle.kts:

tasks.register("getHomeDir") {
    println("Gradle home dir: ${gradle.gradleHomeDir}")
}