How to set Eclipse's output directory from Gradle

Question

I am using Gradle's eclipse plugin. For cross-project reference reasons, I need Eclipse's output directory to not be the default bin, rather ecbuild.

Everytime I run ./gradlew eclipse, it overwrites this output directory setting.

How to make sure it doesn't, or how to set it within gradle build script ?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 06 '17 at 16:20

3

Add this to the build.gradle script:

eclipse {
   classpath { defaultOutputDir = file('ecbuild') }
}

This might require you to upgrade the version of your gradle wrapper.

If so, run :

./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 3.3

answered Jun 06 '17 at 16:20

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 18 '19 at 14:07

In my case, seting defaultOutputDir was not enough. So I did the following:

eclipse {
     classpath {
        defaultOutputDir = file("build")
        file.whenMerged {
            entries.each { entry ->
                if (entry.kind == 'src' && entry.hasProperty('output')) {
                    entry.output = entry.output.replace('bin/', "build/")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

How to set Eclipse's output directory from Gradle

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