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When compiling a groovy project, gradle creates files in $projectRoot/build/. Is there a way to configure this to e.g. an absolute path?

Henrik Andersson
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Yes, there is. You can put the following line in your build script:

buildDir = 'your_directory'

Or in gradle.properties file (no quotes around your_directory in that case).

Build directory is a project property. You can view all project properties available to you by typing: 
gradle properties
Sergey Weiss
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  • Windows absolute path like `buildDir = 'R:\\buildMaria'` worked in `build.gradle` but failed in `gradle.properties` See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29116000/gradle-make-use-of-ramdisk – Paul Verest Mar 18 '15 at 07:42
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    can it be done with some env variable? i need it to configure CI for the project – 4ntoine Dec 21 '17 at 12:16
  • So,t he key for `gradle.properties` is `project.buildDir=new/directory/location`? – FilBot3 Jan 15 '20 at 21:03
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You can set project.buildDir in your build.gradle, or buildDir = PATH in gradle.properties.

And from environment variable like this:

export GRADLE_OPTS=-Dorg.gradle.project.buildDir=/tmp/gradle-build

See Build Environment section of the documentation here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:gradle_environment_variables

And Writing Build Scripts here (for buildDir property): https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/writing_build_scripts.html

(Current version of gradle when writing this: 4.5)

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You can add project.buildDir = 'your/directory' to the file build.gradle you can place it anywhere in separate line

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