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Making an executable without a build.gradle file

See original GitHub issue

Would be nice if the required build.gradle was generated if it’s absent. For example if I have a project with only one .kts script, adding a build.gradle seems excessive. Maybe some functionality of --idea option could be reused to generate a temporary build.gradle file?

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holgerbrandlcommented, Oct 8, 2020

Indeed, the build.gradle is auto-generated by kscript. But until now, we do not install gradle (which imho would be bad practise), but assume the user has installed this already. You can do so easily, e.g. with sdk with

sdk install gradle

Maybe the error could be more descriptive here.

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serpro69commented, Oct 8, 2020

I’m most definitely sure I did 😃 And I’m getting an error (which is why I raised this issue in the first place):

✓ kscript --package script.kts
[kscript] [ERROR] gradle is required to package kscripts

Though now that I read it more carefully I think it means “gradle distribution”, not “gradle build file” 😄 Not sure why I made that assumption in the first place.

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