How do I tell IntelliJ about groovy installed with brew on OSX

Question

I'm running:

IntelliJ Ultimate 2016.3
Homebrew 1.1.2
OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan

I ran brew install groovy which resulted in groovy being installed in /usr/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/. Brew also added a symlink: /usr/local/bin/groovy -> ../Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/bin/groovy

When I open the groovy project in IntelliJ, it gives me an option to Configure a Groovy SDK. I haven't set this up yet, so I get a "Create" button, which launches finder. From what I can tell there's nothing that I can select to make IntelliJ happy. I've tried /user/local/bin/groovy, /user/local/Cellar/groovy, /user/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7, /user/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/bin etc. No mater which I choose, IntelliJ doesn't accept the library and continues to tell me "Error: library is not specified".

Does anyone know how I'm supposed to go about telling IntelliJ where groovy is?

score 143 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 24 '17 at 17:58

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Install groovysdk:

brew remove groovy 
brew install groovysdk

Set GROOVY_HOME, otherwise Intellij reports as broken installation:
```
export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec
```
Point IntelliJ to the installed directory, e.g.:
```
/usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk/2.4.7/libexec
```

edited Nov 24 '17 at 17:58

Dave Jarvis

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answered Mar 22 '17 at 13:17

Omer van Kloeten

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Use <.> to see hidden directory tree in the Finder – Jul 27 '17 at 12:03
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That was so painful to figure out - thanks for posting this tip – juice Sep 30 '17 at 20:58
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you also do cmd + g to navigate to a specific folder – kindjacket Mar 06 '18 at 18:29
IntelliJ 2018.1 doesn't report the installation as broken for me, even though GROOVY_HOME isn't set. Perhaps this has been fixed already. – Daniel Werner Jun 04 '18 at 14:33
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I managed to browse to this hidden folder (I had to press and hold these keys to make it work). Now Idea doesn't create any SDK, after I "open" that directory. What's wrong now?... – user3791111 Dec 18 '18 at 16:46
@kindjacket its CMD SHIFT g (good tip though, wouldn't have tried it without having tried your advice first) – Rhubarb Feb 01 '20 at 17:35
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GROOVY_HOME path should have groovysdk and not groovy, isn't it? – Arman Nov 24 '20 at 09:53
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why to remove groovy to install groovy sdk? – user124 Jul 04 '21 at 01:00

score 47 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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brew install groovysdk

Right-Click on Project Root Folder or if a Config Wizard Pops up at the top of your windows we can click that link.
Select Add Project Framework Support
Scroll down and select Groovy

If it does not show in the list; it's because it already has the framework added.
If Groovy has not been added to IntellJ then Select Create...
browse /usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk//libexec/ e.g: /usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk/2.4.11/libexec/

Gotcha - It does show file browser that does not let you view your /usr/local file path, you need to press shift + command + g will open a dialog where you can type the path of any folder that you want to open

Done.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Sep 12 '17 at 17:07

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I just tried with IntelliJ 2019.2.3 and `shift + command + g` wasn't needed. – Jakub Kukul Oct 09 '19 at 11:16
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This actually works with the 2019 versions of IntelliJ. Nothing else posted here worked (or was specific enough). – Michael Oryl Jan 03 '20 at 13:52

score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 13 '16 at 00:23

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/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec.

use brew info groovy to print help:

==> Caveats
  You should set GROOVY_HOME:
    export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec

answered Dec 13 '16 at 00:23

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This was useful to know, but ultimately didn't fix things. I think there might be a problem on the intelliJ side. It wound up wanting a folder named groovy-x.y.z, which I got manually from the Groovy website and unzipped under ~/tools/groovy-x.y.z/ – David Dec 13 '16 at 16:23

score 14 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 14 '16 at 18:07

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I did this with Intellij IDEA 2016.3 on OS X.

I am able to configure this under Project Settings -> Global Libraries.

Add a new global library by clicking the + and select Java
Navigate to the location homebrew installed Groovy, /usr/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7 and select all the JAR files in the libexec/lib directory.
Set the name to groovy-2.4.7, or whatever works for you.

answered Dec 14 '16 at 18:07

Will

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Only thing that worked for me. IntelliJ does not make this easy. – etech Nov 30 '22 at 21:59

score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 29 '19 at 21:59

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It is very easy to do:

Install groovy:

brew install groovy

Point IntelliJ to the following directory:

/usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk/<version>/libexec

You will see that intellij will get all the required dependencies

answered Mar 29 '19 at 21:59

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there is no folder as groovysdk in Cellar? – user124 Jul 04 '21 at 01:01

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 29 '17 at 11:23

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Because I could not select /usr in the open dialog, I used to 'go to folder' function of finder and created a favorite entry for /usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec which worked.

answered Apr 29 '17 at 11:23

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cmd + shift + . will show "hidden" folders such as /usr – Troup Mar 05 '18 at 20:51
you can also open it via `open /path/to/folder` in terminal and then drag that folder to the favorites bar. – xandermonkey Mar 25 '20 at 18:54

How do I tell IntelliJ about groovy installed with brew on OSX

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