https://tardisgallifrey.codeberg.page/tags/kotlin/Recent content in Kotlin on The TARDIS Server ProjectHugoen-usFri, 11 Sep 2026 12:11:58 -0500https://tardisgallifrey.codeberg.page/posts/gradlelesson2/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:11:58 -0500https://tardisgallifrey.codeberg.page/posts/gradlelesson2/<h2 id="background-and-beginning">Background and beginning</h2> <p>If you read my previous post, you know that I recently spent a good deal of time debugging a Java build of a program. Not a bug in the Java code, but a bug in gradle, my build environment. Specifically, in my gradle build file: <code>build.gradle.kts</code>.</p> <p>After going through that problem, I spent time, finally, not pursuing more programming, but learning how gradle&rsquo;s build operated instead. So, this is a summary of that learning. Sorry, it&rsquo;s going to be a bit long. But, first, I need to take a minute to go over background things so that we are all on the same page. If you read my post about writing and compiling a <em>Hello World!</em> program in <a href="https://www.tardisgallifrey.com/posts/helloworld">C and in Java</a> , you will know what a basic Java program looks like. You will also see that, in theory, you can compile a Java class with <code>javac MyMain.java</code> into a program.</p>