The documentation is not very clear on what all the available options are…
\nafter much Googling and many different attempts finally figured out how to raise the maximum heap of the compiler from within the gradle.build script.<\/p>\n
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Update:<\/strong> The solution to increasing the JVM’s Heap has been to remove those options from gradle.build<\/strong> script and add a new file<\/strong> on the same folder as where your gradle.build file lives called ‘gradle.properties’<\/strong><\/p>\n These are the contents that made it work for both Mac and Windows (I’ve still not tested this on my linux box)<\/p>\n [pastacode lang=”java” manual=”org.gradle.jvmargs%3D-Xms256m%20-Xmx1024m” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The documentation is not very clear on what all the available options are… after much Googling and many different attempts finally figured out how to raise the maximum heap of the compiler from within the gradle.build script. [pastacode lang=”java” manual=”apply%20plugin%3A%20%E2%80%98java%E2%80%99%0A%0AcompileJava%20%7B%0A%2F%2Fraise%20heap%0Aoptions.fork%20%3D%20%E2%80%98true%E2%80%99%0Aoptions.forkOptions.with%20%7B%0AmemoryMaximumSize%20%3D%20%E2%80%9C2048m%E2%80%9D%0A%7D%0A%7D” message=”” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/] Update: So I’ve noticed this works great on MacOSX, but it doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[1410,232,1409,583,1411],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-ant","tag-building","tag-gradle","tag-java","tag-java-compiler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-Rz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3331,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/gradle-how-to-copy-files-from-another-jar-into-your-resulting-output-jar\/","url_meta":{"origin":3321,"position":0},"title":"GRADLE: How to copy files from another .jar into your resulting output .jar","author":"gubatron","date":"July 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In our project we like to deliver a single jar as the final product, if you need to copy files that live on an existing jar into the Gradle's output jar, this example shows you how to do that (and more) [pastacode lang=\"java\" manual=\"jar%20%7B%0A%2F%2Fthis%20is%20how%20you%20change%20the%20name%20of%20the%20output%20jar%0AarchiveName%3D%E2%80%99frostwire.jar%E2%80%99%0A%0A%2F%2Fsome%20exclusion%20rules%20to%20keep%20your%20.jar%20clean%0Aexclude(%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.SF%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.DSA%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.RSA%E2%80%99%2C%20%E2%80%98META-INF%2F*.MF%E2%80%99)%0A%0A%2F%2Fhere%20we%20grab%20all%20the%20.class%20files%20inside%20messages.jar%20and%20we%20put%20them%20in%20our%20resulting%20jar%0Afrom%20(zipTree(%E2%80%98lib%2Fjars%2Fmessages.jar%E2%80%99))%20%7B%0Ainclude%20%E2%80%98**%2F*.class%E2%80%99%0A%7D%0A%0A%2F%2Fhow%20to%20manipulate%20the%20jar%E2%80%99s%20manifest%0Amanifest%20%7B%0Aattributes%20%E2%80%98Main-Class%E2%80%99%3A%20%E2%80%98com.limegroup.gnutella.gui.Main%E2%80%99%0A%7D%0A%7D\" message=\"\" highlight=\"\" provider=\"manual\"\/]","rel":"","context":"In "Code"","block_context":{"text":"Code","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/code\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3336,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/gradle-how-to-specify-resources-from-different-folders-on-your-sourceset\/","url_meta":{"origin":3321,"position":1},"title":"GRADLE: How to specify resources from different folders on your sourceSet","author":"gubatron","date":"July 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes you need to have resources in your sourceset and these may come from different locations on disk, the official documentation is lacking in real world examples, or at least I just didn't understand it very well, but from reading forums I finally got it to work. 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\nSo I’ve noticed this works great on MacOSX, but it doesn’t work at all on Windows 8.<\/p>\n