I can't figure out to get this working.

Scenario:

• I have an application built with gradle
• The application uses JavaFX

What I want

• Use a variable (defined per developer machine) which points to an installation of a JDK which will be used for building the whole application / tests / ...

I thought about having the gradle.properties file, defining the variable. Something like

JAVA_HOME_FOR_MY_PROJECT=<path to my desired JDK> 

What I don't want

• point JAVA_HOME to the desired JDK

I could live with many suggestions:

• a solution that defines a system environment variable which I'm able to check in my build.gradle script
• a variable defined in gradle.properties
• overriding the JAVA_HOME variable only for the build context (something like use JAVA_HOME=<my special JDK path defined somewhere else defined>)
• something else I didn't think about

Question:

• How to wire a variable (how ever defined, as variable in the gradle.properties, system environment variable, ...) to the build process?

I have more than one JDK7 available and need to point to a special version (minimum JDK_u version).

Any answer is appreciated and I'm thankful for every hint to the right direction.

23 Answers

Two ways

1. In gradle.properties in the .gradle directory in your HOME_DIRECTORY set org.gradle.java.home=/path_to_jdk_directory

or:

2. In your build.gradle

    compileJava.options.fork = true compileJava.options.forkOptions.executable = '/path_to_javac' 

If you add JDK_PATH in gradle.properties your build become dependent on on that particular path. Instead Run gradle task with following command line parametemer

gradle build -Dorg.gradle.java.home=/JDK_PATH 

This way your build is not dependent on some concrete path.

To people ending up here when searching for the Gradle equivalent of the Maven property maven.compiler.source (or <source>1.8</source>):

In build.gradle you can achieve this with

apply plugin: 'java' sourceCompatibility = 1.8 targetCompatibility = 1.8 

See the Gradle documentation on this.

Gradle 6.7+ — Use Gradle Toolchain Support

The right way to do this with modern versions of Gradle (version 6.7+) is to use the Gradle Java Toolchain support.

The following block, when the java plugin is applied to the current project, will use Java 11 in all java compilation, test, and javadoc tasks:

java { toolchain { languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11)) } } 

This can also be set for individual tasks.

NOTE: For other tasks relying on a Java executable or Java home, use the compiler metadata to set the appropriate options. See below for an example with the Kotlin plugin, prior to version 1.5.30.

Gradle attempts to auto-detect the location of the specified JDK via several common mechanisms. Custom locations can be configured if the auto-detection isn't sufficient.

Kotlin 1.5.30+

For Kotlin 1.5.30+, the Kotlin plugin supports toolchains directly:

kotlin { jvmToolchain { (this as JavaToolchainSpec).languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of("11")) } } 

Kotlin Earlier Versions

Configuring the Kotlin compiler for versions prior to 1.5.30 involves using the toolchain API to determine the compiler, and passing that information to the plugin. Other compiler-based plugins may be configured in similar ways.

val compiler = javaToolchains.compilerFor { languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11)) } tasks.withType<KotlinJvmCompile>().configureEach { kotlinOptions.jdkHome = compiler.get().metadata.installationPath.asFile.absolutePath } 

If you have this problem from Intellij IDE, try this options

1. Set Gradle JVM Home

2. Set the JDK version in the Project module settings

3. Check the JDK version in the Modules

If you are executing using gradle wrapper, you can run the command with JDK path like following

./gradlew -Dorg.gradle.java.home=/jdk_path_directory

You could easily point your desired Java version with specifying in the project level gradle.properties. This would effect the current project rather than altering the language level for every project throughout the system.

org.gradle.java.home=<YOUR_JDK_PATH> 

If you are using linux and gradle wrapper you can use following solution.

Add path to local.properties file:

javaHome=<path to JDK> 

Add to your gradlew script file:

DIR=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd ) source $DIR/local.properties 2>/dev/null if ! [ -z "$javaHome" ] then JAVA_HOME=$javaHome fi 

In this solution, each developer can set his own JDK path. File local.properties shouldn't be included in version control system.

If you are using JDK 9+, you can do this:

java { sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8 targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8 } tasks.withType<JavaCompile> { options.compilerArgs.addAll(arrayOf("--release", "8")) } 

You can also see the following related issues:

• Gradle: [Java 9] Add convenience method for -release compiler argument
• Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle: JDK API compatibility should match the sourceCompatibility option.

There is one more option to follow. In your gradle tasks available in Eclipse, you can set your desired jdk path. (I know this is a while since the question was posted. This answer can help someone.)

Right click on the deploy or any other task and select "Open Gradle Run Configuration..."

Then navigate to "Java Home" and paste your desired java path.

Please note that, bin will be added by the gradle task itself. So don't add the "bin" to the path.

I added this line in my GRADLE_HOME/bin/gradle file - export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java/version

For windows run gradle task with jdk 11 path parameter in quotes

gradlew clean build -Dorg.gradle.java.home="c:/Program Files/Java/jdk-11" 

For Windows, open cmd and enter to your project root, then execute a command like this:

gradlew build -Dorg.gradle.java.home="jdk_path"

My JDK is located in this path: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.5.

So, for my case, it looks like this below:

gradlew build -Dorg.gradle.java.home="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-11.0.5"

Additionally, if you want to specify a certain variant, you can do like this :

gradlew assembleDebug -Dorg.gradle.java.home="E:\AndroidStudio\jre"

This command will compile your project with Debug variant and output 2 apks(debug + release) in 2 folders.

there is a Gradle plugin that download/bootstraps a JDK automatically:

No IDE integration yet and a decent shell required on Windows.

As seen in Gradle (Eclipse plugin)

Gradle uses whichever JDK it finds in your path (to check, use java -version). Alternatively, you can set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the install directory of the desired JDK.

If you are using this Eclipse plugin or Enide Studio 2014, alternative JAVA_HOME to use (set in Preferences) will be in version 0.15, see

So, I use IntelliJ for my Android project, and the following solved the issue in the IDE:

just cause it might save someone the few hours I wasted... IntelliJ -> Preferences -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Build tools -> Maven -> Gradle

and set Gradle JVM to 1.8 make sure you also have JDK 8 installed...

NOTE: the project was compiling just fine from the command line

There is a pretty simple way. You can try the following solution.

sudo update-alternatives --config java 

After updating your java version, let check Gradle current JVM's version to ensure this change was applied.

gradle -v 

For more details, pls review your gradlew file (in Unix-like OS) or gradlew.bat file (in Window OS) to see how Gradle config JAVACMD variable.

For example

# Determine the Java command to use to start the JVM. if [ -n "$JAVA_HOME" ] ; then if [ -x "$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" ] ; then # IBM's JDK on AIX uses strange locations for the executables JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/jre/sh/java" else JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" fi if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: $JAVA_HOME Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation." fi else JAVACMD="java" which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location of your Java installation." fi 

*gradle.properties org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx1536M android.useAndroidX=true android.enableJetifier=true org.gradle.java.home=C\:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk-11.0.15 ------------------------------------------------------------------- **build.gradle** android { compileSdkVersion flutter.compileSdkVersion ndkVersion flutter.ndkVersion compileOptions { sourceCompatibility 11 targetCompatibility 11 } kotlinOptions { jvmTarget = '11' useIR = true } sourceSets { main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin' }* 

after flutter3.0 & jdk11 install these steps worked for me

If you just want to set it once to run a specific command:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-oracle/ gw build 

Android Studio

File > Project Structure > SDK Location > JDK Location >

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 

GL

Install JDK

If you are using Kotlin DSL, then in build.gradle.kts add:

tasks.withType<JavaCompile> { options.isFork = true options.forkOptions.javaHome = File("C:\\bin\\jdk-13.0.1\\") } 

Of course, I'm assuming that you have Windows OS and javac compiler is in path C:\bin\jdk-13.0.1\bin\javac. For Linux OS will be similarly.

I am using Gradle 4.2 . Default JDK is Java 9. In early day of Java 9, Gradle 4.2 run on JDK 8 correctly (not JDK 9).

I set JDK manually like this, in file %GRADLE_HOME%\bin\gradle.bat:

@if "%DEBUG%" == "" @echo off @rem ########################################################################## @rem @rem Gradle startup script for Windows @rem @rem ########################################################################## @rem Set local scope for the variables with windows NT shell if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal set DIRNAME=%~dp0 if "%DIRNAME%" == "" set DIRNAME=. set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%.. @rem Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script. set DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS= @rem Find java.exe if defined JAVA_HOME goto findJavaFromJavaHome @rem VyDN-start. set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144\ @rem VyDN-end. set JAVA_EXE=java.exe %JAVA_EXE% -version >NUL 2>&1 if "%ERRORLEVEL%" == "0" goto init echo. echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH. echo. echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the echo location of your Java installation. goto fail :findJavaFromJavaHome set JAVA_HOME=%JAVA_HOME:"=% @rem VyDN-start. set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_144\ @rem VyDN-end. set JAVA_EXE=%JAVA_HOME%/bin/java.exe if exist "%JAVA_EXE%" goto init echo. echo ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: %JAVA_HOME% echo. echo Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the echo location of your Java installation. goto fail :init @rem Get command-line arguments, handling Windows variants if not "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" goto win9xME_args :win9xME_args @rem Slurp the command line arguments. set CMD_LINE_ARGS= set _SKIP=2 :win9xME_args_slurp if "x%~1" == "x" goto execute set CMD_LINE_ARGS=%* :execute @rem Setup the command line set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\lib\gradle-launcher-4.2.jar @rem Execute Gradle "%JAVA_EXE%" %DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS% %JAVA_OPTS% %GRADLE_OPTS% "-Dorg.gradle.appname=%APP_BASE_NAME%" -classpath "%CLASSPATH%" org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain %CMD_LINE_ARGS% :end @rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="0" goto mainEnd :fail rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code! if not "" == "%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit 1 exit /b 1 :mainEnd if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" endlocal :omega 

Thanks to this answer I was able to identify that my issue was gradle picking the wrong JDK even if the JAVA_HOME was set correctly.

My original comment:

My OS is Linux and I have my JAVA_HOME pointing to the correct path. I have even used this command gradle build -Dorg.gradle.java.home=$JAVA_HOME to prove my point. I've installed gradle using snap in Ubuntu and I'm guessing it is using some bundled JDK.

My solution:

I've removed gradle using snap and then I've manually installed gradle by downloading their binaries and put it in the PATH.

My conclusion is that the gradle snap installation on Ubuntu comes bundled with some older JDK.