Gradle User Guide

Version 1.11

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. About this user guide
2. Overview
2.1. Features
2.2. Why Groovy?
3. Tutorials
3.1. Getting Started
4. Installing Gradle
4.1. Prerequisites
4.2. Download
4.3. Unpacking
4.4. Environment variables
4.5. Running and testing your installation
4.6. JVM options
5. Troubleshooting
5.1. Working through problems
5.2. Getting help
6. Build Script Basics
6.1. Projects and tasks
6.2. Hello world
6.3. A shortcut task definition
6.4. Build scripts are code
6.5. Task dependencies
6.6. Dynamic tasks
6.7. Manipulating existing tasks
6.8. Shortcut notations
6.9. Extra task properties
6.10. Using Ant Tasks
6.11. Using methods
6.12. Default tasks
6.13. Configure by DAG
6.14. Where to next?
7. Java Quickstart
7.1. The Java plugin
7.2. A basic Java project
7.3. Multi-project Java build
7.4. Where to next?
8. Dependency Management Basics
8.1. What is dependency management?
8.2. Declaring your dependencies
8.3. Dependency configurations
8.4. External dependencies
8.5. Repositories
8.6. Publishing artifacts
8.7. Where to next?
9. Groovy Quickstart
9.1. A basic Groovy project
9.2. Summary
10. Web Application Quickstart
10.1. Building a WAR file
10.2. Running your web application
10.3. Summary
11. Using the Gradle Command-Line
11.1. Executing multiple tasks
11.2. Excluding tasks
11.3. Continuing the build when a failure occurs
11.4. Task name abbreviation
11.5. Selecting which build to execute
11.6. Obtaining information about your build
11.7. Dry Run
11.8. Summary
12. Using the Gradle Graphical User Interface
12.1. Task Tree
12.2. Favorites
12.3. Command Line
12.4. Setup
13. Writing Build Scripts
13.1. The Gradle build language
13.2. The Project API
13.3. The Script API
13.4. Declaring variables
13.5. Some Groovy basics
14. Tutorial - 'This and That'
14.1. Directory creation
14.2. Gradle properties and system properties
14.3. Configuring the project using an external build script
14.4. Configuring arbitrary objects
14.5. Configuring arbitrary objects using an external script
14.6. Caching
15. More about Tasks
15.1. Defining tasks
15.2. Locating tasks
15.3. Configuring tasks
15.4. Adding dependencies to a task
15.5. Ordering tasks
15.6. Adding a description to a task
15.7. Replacing tasks
15.8. Skipping tasks
15.9. Skipping tasks that are up-to-date
15.10. Task rules
15.11. Finalizer tasks
15.12. Summary
16. Working With Files
16.1. Locating files
16.2. File collections
16.3. File trees
16.4. Using the contents of an archive as a file tree
16.5. Specifying a set of input files
16.6. Copying files
16.7. Using the Sync task
16.8. Creating archives
17. Using Ant from Gradle
17.1. Using Ant tasks and types in your build
17.2. Importing an Ant build
17.3. Ant properties and references
17.4. API
18. Logging
18.1. Choosing a log level
18.2. Writing your own log messages
18.3. Logging from external tools and libraries
18.4. Changing what Gradle logs
19. The Gradle Daemon
19.1. Enter the daemon
19.2. Reusing and expiration of daemons
19.3. Usage and troubleshooting
19.4. Configuring the daemon
20. The Build Environment
20.1. Configuring the build environment via gradle.properties
20.2. Accessing the web via a proxy
21. Gradle Plugins
21.1. Applying plugins
21.2. What plugins do
21.3. Conventions
21.4. More on plugins
22. Standard Gradle plugins
22.1. Language plugins
22.2. Incubating language plugins
22.3. Integration plugins
22.4. Incubating integration plugins
22.5. Software development plugins
22.6. Incubating software development plugins
22.7. Base plugins
22.8. Third party plugins
23. The Java Plugin
23.1. Usage
23.2. Source sets
23.3. Tasks
23.4. Project layout
23.5. Dependency management
23.6. Convention properties
23.7. Working with source sets
23.8. Javadoc
23.9. Clean
23.10. Resources
23.11. CompileJava
23.12. Test
23.13. Jar
23.14. Uploading
24. The Groovy Plugin
24.1. Usage
24.2. Tasks
24.3. Project layout
24.4. Dependency management
24.5. Automatic configuration of groovyClasspath
24.6. Convention properties
24.7. Source set properties
24.8. GroovyCompile
25. The Scala Plugin
25.1. Usage
25.2. Tasks
25.3. Project layout
25.4. Dependency management
25.5. Automatic configuration of scalaClasspath
25.6. Convention properties
25.7. Source set properties
25.8. Fast Scala Compiler
25.9. Compiling in external process
25.10. Incremental compilation
25.11. Eclipse Integration
25.12. IntelliJ IDEA Integration
26. The War Plugin
26.1. Usage
26.2. Tasks
26.3. Project layout
26.4. Dependency management
26.5. Convention properties
26.6. War
26.7. Customizing
27. The Ear Plugin
27.1. Usage
27.2. Tasks
27.3. Project layout
27.4. Dependency management
27.5. Convention properties
27.6. Ear
27.7. Customizing
27.8. Using custom descriptor file
28. The Jetty Plugin
28.1. Usage
28.2. Tasks
28.3. Project layout
28.4. Dependency management
28.5. Convention properties
29. The Checkstyle Plugin
29.1. Usage
29.2. Tasks
29.3. Project layout
29.4. Dependency management
29.5. Configuration
30. The CodeNarc Plugin
30.1. Usage
30.2. Tasks
30.3. Project layout
30.4. Dependency management
30.5. Configuration
31. The FindBugs Plugin
31.1. Usage
31.2. Tasks
31.3. Dependency management
31.4. Configuration
32. The JDepend Plugin
32.1. Usage
32.2. Tasks
32.3. Dependency management
32.4. Configuration
33. The PMD Plugin
33.1. Usage
33.2. Tasks
33.3. Dependency management
33.4. Configuration
34. The JaCoCo Plugin
34.1. Getting Started
34.2. Configuring the JaCoCo Plugin
34.3. JaCoCo Report configuration
34.4. JaCoCo specific task configuration
34.5. Tasks
34.6. Dependency management
35. The Sonar Plugin
35.1. Usage
35.2. Analyzing Multi-Project Builds
35.3. Analyzing Custom Source Sets
35.4. Analyzing languages other than Java
35.5. Setting Custom Sonar Properties
35.6. Configuring Sonar Settings from the Command Line
35.7. Tasks
36. The Sonar Runner Plugin
36.1. Plugin Status and Compatibility
36.2. Getting Started
36.3. Configuring the Sonar Runner
36.4. Analyzing Multi-Project Builds
36.5. Analyzing Custom Source Sets
36.6. Analyzing languages other than Java
36.7. More on configuring Sonar properties
36.8. Setting Sonar Properties from the Command Line
36.9. Executing Sonar Runner in a separate process
36.10. Tasks
37. The OSGi Plugin
37.1. Usage
37.2. Implicitly applied plugins
37.3. Tasks
37.4. Dependency management
37.5. Convention object
37.6.
38. The Eclipse Plugin
38.1. Usage
38.2. Tasks
38.3. Configuration
38.4. Customizing the generated files
39. The IDEA Plugin
39.1. Usage
39.2. Tasks
39.3. Configuration
39.4. Customizing the generated files
39.5. Further things to consider
40. The ANTLR Plugin
40.1. Usage
40.2. Tasks
40.3. Project layout
40.4. Dependency management
40.5. Convention properties
40.6. Source set properties
41. The Project Report Plugin
41.1. Usage
41.2. Tasks
41.3. Project layout
41.4. Dependency management
41.5. Convention properties
42. The Announce Plugin
42.1. Usage
42.2. Configuration
43. The Build Announcements Plugin
43.1. Usage
44. The Distribution Plugin
44.1. Usage
44.2. Tasks
44.3. Distribution contents
45. The Application Plugin
45.1. Usage
45.2. Tasks
45.3. Convention properties
45.4. Including other resources in the distribution
46. The Java Library Distribution Plugin
46.1. Usage
46.2. Tasks
46.3. Including other resources in the distribution
47. Build Init Plugin
47.1. Tasks
47.2. What to set up
47.3. Build init types
48. Wrapper Plugin
48.1. Usage
48.2. Tasks
49. The Build Dashboard Plugin
49.1. Usage
49.2. Tasks
49.3. Project layout
49.4. Dependency management
49.5. Configuration
50. Dependency Management
50.1. Introduction
50.2. Dependency Management Best Practices
50.3. Dependency configurations
50.4. How to declare your dependencies
50.5. Working with dependencies
50.6. Repositories
50.7. How dependency resolution works
50.8. Fine-tuning the dependency resolution process
50.9. The dependency cache
50.10. Strategies for transitive dependency management
51. Publishing artifacts
51.1. Introduction
51.2. Artifacts and configurations
51.3. Declaring artifacts
51.4. Publishing artifacts
51.5. More about project libraries
52. The Maven Plugin
52.1. Usage
52.2. Tasks
52.3. Dependency management
52.4. Convention properties
52.5. Convention methods
52.6. Interacting with Maven repositories
53. The Signing Plugin
53.1. Usage
53.2. Signatory credentials
53.3. Specifying what to sign
53.4. Publishing the signatures
53.5. Signing POM files
54. Building native binaries
54.1. Tool chain support
54.2. Component model
54.3. Tasks
54.4. Core language support: C, C++, Assembler, Objective-C and Objective-C++
54.5. Configuring the compiler, assembler and linker
54.6. Windows Resources
54.7. Library Dependencies
54.8. Native Binary Variants
54.9. Tool chains
54.10. Visual Studio IDE integration
55. The Build Lifecycle
55.1. Build phases
55.2. Settings file
55.3. Multi-project builds
55.4. Initialization
55.5. Configuration and execution of a single project build
55.6. Responding to the lifecycle in the build script
56. Multi-project Builds
56.1. Cross project configuration
56.2. Subproject configuration
56.3. Execution rules for multi-project builds
56.4. Running tasks by their absolute path
56.5. Project and task paths
56.6. Dependencies - Which dependencies?
56.7. Project lib dependencies
56.8. Parallel project execution
56.9. Decoupled Projects
56.10. Multi-Project Building and Testing
56.11. Property and method inheritance
56.12. Summary
57. Writing Custom Task Classes
57.1. Packaging a task class
57.2. Writing a simple task class
57.3. A standalone project
57.4. Incremental tasks
58. Writing Custom Plugins
58.1. Packaging a plugin
58.2. Writing a simple plugin
58.3. Getting input from the build
58.4. Working with files in custom tasks and plugins
58.5. A standalone project
58.6. Maintaining multiple domain objects
59. Organizing Build Logic
59.1. Inherited properties and methods
59.2. Injected configuration
59.3. Build sources in the buildSrc project
59.4. Running another Gradle build from a build
59.5. External dependencies for the build script
59.6. Ant optional dependencies
59.7. Summary
60. Initialization Scripts
60.1. Basic usage
60.2. Using an init script
60.3. Writing an init script
60.4. External dependencies for the init script
60.5. Init script plugins
61. The Gradle Wrapper
61.1. Configuration
61.2. Unix file permissions
62. Embedding Gradle
62.1. Introduction to the Tooling API
62.2. Tooling API and the Gradle Build Daemon
62.3. Quickstart
63. Comparing Builds
63.1. Definition of terms
63.2. Current Capabilities
63.3. Comparing Gradle Builds
64. Ivy Publishing (new)
64.1. The “ivy-publish” Plugin
64.2. Publications
64.3. Repositories
64.4. Performing a publish
64.5. Generating the Ivy module descriptor file without publishing
64.6. Complete example
64.7. Future features
65. Maven Publishing (new)
65.1. The “maven-publish” Plugin
65.2. Publications
65.3. Repositories
65.4. Performing a publish
65.5. Publishing to Maven Local
65.6. Generating the POM file without publishing
A. Gradle Samples
A.1. Sample customBuildLanguage
A.2. Sample customDistribution
A.3. Sample customPlugin
A.4. Sample java/multiproject
B. Potential Traps
B.1. Groovy script variables
B.2. Configuration and execution phase
C. The Feature Lifecycle
C.1. States
C.2. Backwards Compatibility Policy
D. Gradle Command Line
D.1. Deprecated command-line options
D.2. Daemon command-line options:
D.3. System properties
D.4. Environment variables
E. Existing IDE Support and how to cope without it
E.1. IntelliJ
E.2. Eclipse
E.3. Using Gradle without IDE support
Glossary

List of Examples

6.1. The first build script
6.2. Execution of a build script
6.3. A task definition shortcut
6.4. Using Groovy in Gradle's tasks
6.5. Using Groovy in Gradle's tasks
6.6. Declaration of dependencies between tasks
6.7. Lazy dependsOn - the other task does not exist (yet)
6.8. Dynamic creation of a task
6.9. Accessing a task via API - adding a dependency
6.10. Accessing a task via API - adding behaviour
6.11. Accessing task as a property of the build script
6.12. Adding extra properties to a task
6.13. Using AntBuilder to execute ant.loadfile target
6.14. Using methods to organize your build logic
6.15. Defining a default tasks
6.16. Different outcomes of build depending on chosen tasks
7.1. Using the Java plugin
7.2. Building a Java project
7.3. Adding Maven repository
7.4. Adding dependencies
7.5. Customization of MANIFEST.MF
7.6. Adding a test system property
7.7. Publishing the JAR file
7.8. Eclipse plugin
7.9. Java example - complete build file
7.10. Multi-project build - hierarchical layout
7.11. Multi-project build - settings.gradle file
7.12. Multi-project build - common configuration
7.13. Multi-project build - dependencies between projects
7.14. Multi-project build - distribution file
8.1. Declaring dependencies
8.2. Definition of an external dependency
8.3. Shortcut definition of an external dependency
8.4. Usage of Maven central repository
8.5. Usage of a remote Maven repository
8.6. Usage of a remote Ivy directory
8.7. Usage of a local Ivy directory
8.8. Publishing to an Ivy repository
8.9. Publishing to a Maven repository
9.1. Groovy plugin
9.2. Dependency on Groovy 2.2.0
9.3. Groovy example - complete build file
10.1. War plugin
10.2. Running web application with Jetty plugin
11.1. Executing multiple tasks
11.2. Excluding tasks
11.3. Abbreviated task name
11.4. Abbreviated camel case task name
11.5. Selecting the project using a build file
11.6. Selecting the project using project directory
11.7. Obtaining information about projects
11.8. Providing a description for a project
11.9. Obtaining information about tasks
11.10. Changing the content of the task report
11.11. Obtaining more information about tasks
11.12. Obtaining detailed help for tasks
11.13. Obtaining information about dependencies
11.14. Filtering dependency report by configuration
11.15. Getting the insight into a particular dependency
11.16. Information about properties
12.1. Launching the GUI
13.1. Accessing property of the Project object
13.2. Using local variables
13.3. Using extra properties
13.4. Groovy JDK methods
13.5. Property accessors
13.6. Method call without parentheses
13.7. List and map literals
13.8. Closure as method parameter
13.9. Closure delegates
14.1. Directory creation with mkdir
14.2. Setting properties with a gradle.properties file
14.3. Configuring the project using an external build script
14.4. Configuring arbitrary objects
14.5. Configuring arbitrary objects using a script
15.1. Defining tasks
15.2. Defining tasks - using strings for task names
15.3. Defining tasks with alternative syntax
15.4. Accessing tasks as properties
15.5. Accessing tasks via tasks collection
15.6. Accessing tasks by path
15.7. Creating a copy task
15.8. Configuring a task - various ways
15.9. Configuring a task - with closure
15.10. Defining a task with closure
15.11. Adding dependency on task from another project
15.12. Adding dependency using task object
15.13. Adding dependency using closure
15.14. Adding a 'must run after' task ordering
15.15. Adding a 'should run after' task ordering
15.16. Task ordering does not imply task execution
15.17. A 'should run after' task ordering is ignored if it introduces an ordering cycle
15.18. Adding a description to a task
15.19. Overwriting a task
15.20. Skipping a task using a predicate
15.21. Skipping tasks with StopExecutionException
15.22. Enabling and disabling tasks
15.23. A generator task
15.24. Declaring the inputs and outputs of a task
15.25. Task rule
15.26. Dependency on rule based tasks
15.27. Adding a task finalizer
15.28. Task finalizer for a failing task
16.1. Locating files
16.2. Creating a file collection
16.3. Using a file collection
16.4. Implementing a file collection
16.5. Creating a file tree
16.6. Using a file tree
16.7. Using an archive as a file tree
16.8. Specifying a set of files
16.9. Specifying a set of files
16.10. Copying files using the copy task
16.11. Specifying copy task source files and destination directory
16.12. Selecting the files to copy
16.13. Copying files using the copy() method without up-to-date check
16.14. Copying files using the copy() method with up-to-date check
16.15. Renaming files as they are copied
16.16. Filtering files as they are copied
16.17. Nested copy specs
16.18. Using the Sync task to copy dependencies
16.19. Creating a ZIP archive
16.20. Creation of ZIP archive
16.21. Configuration of archive task - custom archive name
16.22. Configuration of archive task - appendix & classifier
17.1. Using an Ant task
17.2. Passing nested text to an Ant task
17.3. Passing nested elements to an Ant task
17.4. Using an Ant type
17.5. Using a custom Ant task
17.6. Declaring the classpath for a custom Ant task
17.7. Using a custom Ant task and dependency management together
17.8. Importing an Ant build
17.9. Task that depends on Ant target
17.10. Adding behaviour to an Ant target
17.11. Ant target that depends on Gradle task
17.12. Setting an Ant property
17.13. Getting an Ant property
17.14. Setting an Ant reference
17.15. Getting an Ant reference
18.1. Using stdout to write log messages
18.2. Writing your own log messages
18.3. Using SLF4J to write log messages
18.4. Configuring standard output capture
18.5. Configuring standard output capture for a task
18.6. Customizing what Gradle logs
20.1. Configuring an HTTP proxy
20.2. Configuring an HTTPS proxy
21.1. Applying a plugin
21.2. Applying a plugin by type
21.3. Applying a plugin by type
21.4. Tasks added by a plugin
21.5. Changing plugin defaults
21.6. Plugin convention object
23.1. Using the Java plugin
23.2. Custom Java source layout
23.3. Accessing a source set
23.4. Configuring the source directories of a source set
23.5. Defining a source set
23.6. Defining source set dependencies
23.7. Compiling a source set
23.8. Assembling a JAR for a source set
23.9. Generating the Javadoc for a source set
23.10. Running tests in a source set
23.11. Filtering tests in the build script
23.12. JUnit Categories
23.13. Grouping TestNG tests
23.14. Creating a unit test report for subprojects
23.15. Customization of MANIFEST.MF
23.16. Creating a manifest object.
23.17. Separate MANIFEST.MF for a particular archive
23.18. Separate MANIFEST.MF for a particular archive
24.1. Using the Groovy plugin
24.2. Custom Groovy source layout
24.3. Configuration of Groovy dependency
24.4. Configuration of Groovy test dependency
24.5. Configuration of bundled Groovy dependency
24.6. Configuration of Groovy file dependency
25.1. Using the Scala plugin
25.2. Custom Scala source layout
25.3. Declaring a Scala dependency for production code
25.4. Declaring a Scala dependency for test code
25.5. Enabling the Fast Scala Compiler
25.6. Adjusting memory settings
25.7. Activating the Zinc based compiler
26.1. Using the War plugin
26.2. Customization of war plugin
27.1. Using the Ear plugin
27.2. Customization of ear plugin
28.1. Using the Jetty plugin
29.1. Using the Checkstyle plugin
30.1. Using the CodeNarc plugin
31.1. Using the FindBugs plugin
32.1. Using the JDepend plugin
33.1. Using the PMD plugin
34.1. Applying the JaCoCo plugin
34.2. Configuring JaCoCo plugin settings
34.3. Configuring test task
34.4. Configuring test task
34.5. Using application plugin to generate code coverage data
34.6. Coverage reports generated by applicationCodeCoverageReport
35.1. Applying the Sonar plugin
35.2. Configuring Sonar connection settings
35.3. Configuring Sonar project settings
35.4. Global configuration in a multi-project build
35.5. Common project configuration in a multi-project build
35.6. Individual project configuration in a multi-project build
35.7. Configuring the language to be analyzed
35.8. Using property syntax
35.9. Analyzing custom source sets
35.10. Analyzing languages other than Java
35.11. Setting custom global properties
35.12. Setting custom project properties
35.13. Implementing custom command line properties
36.1. Applying the Sonar Runner plugin
36.2. Configuring Sonar connection settings
36.3. Global configuration settings
36.4. Shared configuration settings
36.5. Individual configuration settings
36.6. Skipping analysis of a project
36.7. Analyzing custom source sets
36.8. Analyzing languages other than Java
37.1. Using the OSGi plugin
37.2. Configuration of OSGi MANIFEST.MF file
38.1. Using the Eclipse plugin
38.2. Partial Overwrite for Classpath
38.3. Partial Overwrite for Project
38.4. Export Dependencies
38.5. Customizing the XML
39.1. Using the IDEA plugin
39.2. Partial Overwrite for Module
39.3. Partial Overwrite for Project
39.4. Export Dependencies
39.5. Customizing the XML
40.1. Using the ANTLR plugin
40.2. Declare ANTLR version
42.1. Using the announce plugin
42.2. Configure the announce plugin
42.3. Using the announce plugin
43.1. Using the build announcements plugin
43.2. Using the build announcements plugin from an init script
44.1. Using the distribution plugin
44.2. Adding extra distributions
44.3. Configuring the main distribution
45.1. Using the application plugin
45.2. Configure the application main class
45.3. Include output from other tasks in the application distribution
45.4. Automatically creating files for distribution
46.1. Using the java library distribution plugin
46.2. Configure the distribution name
46.3. Include files in the distribution
49.1. Using the Build Dashboard plugin
50.1. Definition of a configuration
50.2. Accessing a configuration
50.3. Configuration of a configuration
50.4. Module dependencies
50.5. Artifact only notation
50.6. Dependency with classifier
50.7. Iterating over a configuration
50.8. Client module dependencies - transitive dependencies
50.9. Project dependencies
50.10. File dependencies
50.11. Generated file dependencies
50.12. Gradle API dependencies
50.13. Gradle's Groovy dependencies
50.14. Excluding transitive dependencies
50.15. Optional attributes of dependencies
50.16. Collections and arrays of dependencies
50.17. Dependency configurations
50.18. Dependency configurations for project
50.19. Configuration.copy
50.20. Accessing declared dependencies
50.21. Configuration.files
50.22. Configuration.files with spec
50.23. Configuration.copy
50.24. Configuration.copy vs. Configuration.files
50.25. Adding central Maven repository
50.26. Adding Bintray's JCenter Maven repository
50.27. Adding the local Maven cache as a repository
50.28. Adding custom Maven repository
50.29. Adding additional Maven repositories for JAR files
50.30. Accessing password protected Maven repository
50.31. Flat repository resolver
50.32. Ivy repository
50.33. Ivy repository with pattern layout
50.34. Ivy repository with Maven compatible layout
50.35. Ivy repository with custom patterns
50.36. Ivy repository
50.37. Accessing a repository
50.38. Configuration of a repository
50.39. Definition of a custom repository
50.40. Forcing consistent version for a group of libraries
50.41. Using a custom versioning scheme
50.42. Blacklisting a version with a replacement
50.43. Changing dependency group and/or name at the resolution
50.44. Enabling dynamic resolve mode
50.45. 'Latest' version selector
50.46. Custom status scheme
50.47. Dynamic version cache control
50.48. Changing module cache control
51.1. Defining an artifact using an archive task
51.2. Defining an artifact using a file
51.3. Customizing an artifact
51.4. Map syntax for defining an artifact using a file
51.5. Configuration of the upload task
52.1. Using the Maven plugin
52.2. Creating a stand alone pom.
52.3. Upload of file to remote Maven repository
52.4. Upload of file via SSH
52.5. Customization of pom
52.6. Builder style customization of pom
52.7. Modifying auto-generated content
52.8. Customization of Maven installer
52.9. Generation of multiple poms
52.10. Accessing a mapping configuration
53.1. Using the Signing plugin
53.2. Signing a configuration
53.3. Signing a configuration output
53.4. Signing a task
53.5. Signing a task output
53.6. Conditional signing
53.7. Signing a POM for deployment
54.1. Defining a library component
54.2. Defining executable components
54.3. The 'cpp' plugin
54.4. C++ source set
54.5. The 'c' plugin
54.6. C source set
54.7. The 'assembler' plugin
54.8. The 'objective-c' plugin
54.9. The 'objective-cpp' plugin
54.10. Settings that apply to all binaries
54.11. Settings that apply to all shared libraries
54.12. Settings that apply to all binaries produced for the 'main' executable component
54.13. Settings that apply only to shared libraries produced for the 'main' library component
54.14. The 'windows-resources' plugin
54.15. Configuring the location of Windows resource sources
54.16. Building a resource-only dll
54.17. Providing a library dependency to the source set
54.18. Providing a library dependency to the binary
54.19. Declaring project dependencies
54.20. Defining build types
54.21. Configuring debug binaries
54.22. Defining platforms
54.23. Defining flavors
54.24. Targeting a component at particular platforms
54.25. Building all possible variants
54.26. Defining tool chains
55.1. Single project build
55.2. Hierarchical layout
55.3. Flat layout
55.4. Modification of elements of the project tree
55.5. Modification of elements of the project tree
55.6. Adding of test task to each project which has certain property set
55.7. Notifications
55.8. Setting of certain property to all tasks
55.9. Logging of start and end of each task execution
56.1. Multi-project tree - water & bluewhale projects
56.2. Build script of water (parent) project
56.3. Multi-project tree - water, bluewhale & krill projects
56.4. Water project build script
56.5. Defining common behaviour of all projects and subprojects
56.6. Defining specific behaviour for particular project
56.7. Defining specific behaviour for project krill
56.8. Adding custom behaviour to some projects (filtered by project name)
56.9. Adding custom behaviour to some projects (filtered by project properties)
56.10. Running build from subproject
56.11. Evaluation and execution of projects
56.12. Evaluation and execution of projects
56.13. Running tasks by their absolute path
56.14. Dependencies and execution order
56.15. Dependencies and execution order
56.16. Dependencies and execution order
56.17. Declaring dependencies
56.18. Declaring dependencies
56.19. Cross project task dependencies
56.20. Configuration time dependencies
56.21. Configuration time dependencies - evaluationDependsOn
56.22. Configuration time dependencies
56.23. Dependencies - real life example - crossproject configuration
56.24. Project lib dependencies
56.25. Project lib dependencies
56.26. Fine grained control over dependencies
56.27. Build and Test Single Project
56.28. Partial Build and Test Single Project
56.29. Build and Test Depended On Projects
56.30. Build and Test Dependent Projects
57.1. Defining a custom task
57.2. A hello world task
57.3. A customizable hello world task
57.4. A build for a custom task
57.5. A custom task
57.6. Using a custom task in another project
57.7. Testing a custom task
57.8. Defining an incremental task action
57.9. Running the incremental task for the first time
57.10. Running the incremental task with unchanged inputs
57.11. Running the incremental task with updated input files
57.12. Running the incremental task with an input file removed
57.13. Running the incremental task with an output file removed
57.14. Running the incremental task with an input property changed
58.1. A custom plugin
58.2. A custom plugin extension
58.3. A custom plugin with configuration closure
58.4. Evaluating file properties lazily
58.5. A build for a custom plugin
58.6. Wiring for a custom plugin
58.7. Using a custom plugin in another project
58.8. Testing a custom plugin
58.9. Managing domain objects
59.1. Using inherited properties and methods
59.2. Using injected properties and methods
59.3. Custom buildSrc build script
59.4. Adding subprojects to the root buildSrc project
59.5. Running another build from a build
59.6. Declaring external dependencies for the build script
59.7. A build script with external dependencies
59.8. Ant optional dependencies
60.1. Using init script to perform extra configuration before projects are evaluated
60.2. Declaring external dependencies for an init script
60.3. An init script with external dependencies
60.4. Using plugins in init scripts
61.1. Wrapper task
61.2. Wrapper generated files
64.1. Applying the “ivy-publish” plugin
64.2. Publishing a java module to Ivy
64.3. Publishing additional artifact to Ivy
64.4. customizing the publication identity
64.5. Customizing the module descriptor file
64.6. Publishing multiple modules from a single project
64.7. Declaring repositories to publish to
64.8. Choosing a particular publication to publish
64.9. Publishing all publications via the “publish” lifecycle task
64.10. Generating the Ivy module descriptor file
64.11. Publishing a java module
64.12. Example generated ivy.xml
65.1. Applying the 'maven-publish' plugin
65.2. Adding a MavenPublication for a java component
65.3. Adding additional artifact to a MavenPublication
65.4. customizing the publication identity
65.5. Modifying the POM file
65.6. Publishing multiple modules from a single project
65.7. Declaring repositories to publish to
65.8. Publishing a project to a Maven repository
65.9. Publish a project to the Maven local repository
65.10. Generate a POM file without publishing
B.1. Variables scope: local and script wide
B.2. Distinct configuration and execution phase