Multiple project Gradle builds with non-standard folder hierarchy

Question

Typically, a multi project Gradle build would be setup something like this:

root
   subproject1
   subproject2

And in root's settings.gradle file, I'd have something like:

rootProject.name = 'root'
include 'subproject1'
include 'subproject2'

This kind of multi-project setup is straightforward. However, what if subproject1 or subproject2 aren't contained within root? For example, I might have an existing subproject on my machine that is stored somewhere far away from root. How do I configure the setting.gradle file to account for this "non-standard" structure? Is it just a matter of providing an absolute path to the subproject folder in the settings.gradle file?

Possible duplicate of [Require Gradle project from another directory](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19299316/require-gradle-project-from-another-directory) — beetstra, Sep 06 '18 at 10:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 01 '17 at 06:22

This post covers it: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/how-to-include-sub-projects-in-settings-gradle-file/5096

Basically, you have to overwrite the project.projectDir attribute of your subproject so that it points to the location of the subproject on your machine.

Multiple project Gradle builds with non-standard folder hierarchy

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