[*] There are two different Gradle applications in your system. the system-wide Gradle This application is invoked by gradle (arguments). the gradle-wrapper The gradle-wrapper is specific to every project and can only be invoked inside the project’s directory, using the command ./gradlew (arguments). Your system-wide gradle version is 5.1.1 (as the OP explained in the … Read more
You generate it once, and again when you’d like to change the version of Gradle you use in the project. There’s no need to generate is so often. Here are the docs. Just add wrapper task to build.gradle file and run this task to get the wrapper structure. Mind that you need to have Gradle … Read more
In addition to @RaGe’s answer may be the situation I faced where i had a global git ignore that was ignoring .jar files and so the gradle wrapper jar was never being committed. Thus I was getting that error on the Jenkins server after an attempted /var/lib/jenkins/my_project/gradlew build. I had to explicitly force an add … Read more
The difference lies in the fact that ./gradlew indicates you are using a gradle wrapper. The wrapper is generally part of a project and it facilitates installation of gradle. If you were using gradle without the wrapper you would have to manually install it – for example, on a mac brew install gradle and then … Read more
Try to set the execution flag on your gradlew file: chmod +x gradlew