When I started to build using the instructions on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/How+To+Build+Apache+Fineract+CN, I followed the recommended option 1 in Step 2: Get Program Code and ran into some issues when I ran gradle build (remember, I am trying to do this on a Windows laptop – probably not the ideal environment, and perhaps I should find a Linux build environment, although we don’t really use Ubuntu):
* I ran into: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction Found that I needed to add the following in plugins to the build.gradle file to resolve that: id "io.spring.dependency-management" version "1.0.8.RELEASE" * However, I then got an error: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/spring/gradle/dependencymanagement/DependencyManagementExtension Found that I needed to modify the id "org.springframework.boot" in build.gradle plugins to version "1.5.21.RELEASE" * Then it looked really promising. But then I got an error: org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':licenseMain' This was ultimately resolved by adding the following lines to the license section of the build.gradle file: skipExistingHeaders true ignoreFailures true and adding the following lines before the license section gradle.startParameter.excludedTaskNames += "licenseMain" gradle.startParameter.excludedTaskNames += "licenseTest" Don’t know how relevant this is to the rest of the community for builds done on Ubuntu, the preferred OS. So, it is up to you guys to decide whether you want to create a JIRA to rectify some or all of this, or ignore it. Rohit
