Change Gradle's working directory when compiling a Groovy project

Question

When compiling a groovy project, gradle creates files in $projectRoot/build/. Is there a way to configure this to e.g. an absolute path?

Answer 1

Yes, there is. You can put the following line in your build script:

buildDir = 'your_directory'

Or in gradle.properties file (no quotes around your_directory in that case).

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Build directory is a project property. You can view all project properties available to you by typing:

gradle properties

Answer 2

You can set project.buildDir in your build.gradle, or buildDir = PATH in gradle.properties.

And from environment variable like this:

export GRADLE_OPTS=-Dorg.gradle.project.buildDir=/tmp/gradle-build

See Build Environment section of the documentation here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:gradle_environment_variables

And Writing Build Scripts here (for buildDir property): https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/writing_build_scripts.html

(Current version of gradle when writing this: 4.5)

Answer 3

You can add project.buildDir = 'your/directory' to the file build.gradle you can place it anywhere in separate line