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

In my build.gradle, I resolved this issue by creating a task and then specifying the "mainClassName" as follows:

task(runSimpleXYZProgram, group: 'algorithms', description: 'Description of what your program does', dependsOn: 'classes', type: JavaExec) {
    mainClassName = 'your.entire.package.classContainingYourMainMethod'
}