How to prevent gradlew from download anything?

Question

I am trying to run gradlew on offline machine. It starts from message

Downloading https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip

and then fails with exception.

What it wants and how to satisfy it?

Allhallows

This system is rather designed to work online - how would dependencies be downloaded otherwise? – Discourse

@Discourse so as I wonder – Allhallows

Answer 1

Option 1. If you have possibility go online temporary

Command gradlew means you are trying to use Gradle Wrapper. It is a tool for automated downloading of Gradle distribution.

In order to download Gradle Wrapper you have to execute gradlew command with a proper network connection at least once. Make sure you have correct network and proxy settings.

./gradlew build

Only after that you can build a project offline. Example:

./gradlew build --offline

Option 2. Download distribution by hand

Or, alternatively, you could download distribution from official site. Then extract it, add gradle to PATH variable, and run:

gradle build --offline

Sayles

No, it is trying to access internet nevertheless. Tried command gradlew test --offline – Allhallows

Off course, it depends on a specific build. Sometimes third-party plugins don't honor this parameter. Please provide the error output. – Sayles

This question is about auto-downloading the gradle wrapper, not the dependencies of the project. – Shedevil

@MirceaD. Thanks for the hint. I've fixed it – Sayles