I've downloaded and installed to the PC the latest version of Gradle.

 

http://www.gradle.org/downloads

 

I've downloaded and ran "install.cmd" on this version of Forge:

http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.6.4-9.11.1.953/forge-1.6.4-9.11.1.953-src.zip

 

Both installed and ready. Fine so far. I can make HelloWorld mod and test it in Eclipse.

 

But not with Gradle... yet.

 

Now, I've read through enough posts here to give me a migrane on this "gradle eclipse" or "gradle setupDevWorkSpace" .. but I'm not getting the connection.

 

I'm in Eclipse -- I can setup a project and use eclipse to build.

 

I'm looking at this text from http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php?topic=14048.0

 

Windows:

Run the following in command prompt:

 

gradlew.bat setupDevWorkspace

gradlew.bat eclipse

 

Is there a package to download that defines the project/task "setupDevWorkspace", "eclipse" ?  I didn't see it in the forum.

 

Which "zip do I download" referred to here in step 1 "download and extract the src zip" of the post:

http://www.minecraftforge.net/forum/index.php/topic,14045.msg72127.html#msg72127

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

Errrrr.... you are doing it wrong.

 

First, you need to be using forge build 964 if you want to take advantage of gradle.  Build 953 will not cut it.'

 

Next, you don't need to download gradle yourself, if you run the right commands forge will do it itself.

 

Other than that, just follow the tutorial you were following.

 

Also, I suggest you run setupDecompWorkspace instead of setupDevWorkspace.  I have been having some issues with it, but it supposedly gives you decompiled Minecraft code to work with.

Thanks.

 

It's pretty interesting how well things start working when I stop doing it wrong.  ;-) ;-)

 

Got it now.  I didn't realize it was tied to the version of Forge.

Errrrr.... you are doing it wrong.

 

First, you need to be using forge build 964 if you want to take advantage of gradle.  Build 953 will not cut it.'

 

Next, you don't need to download gradle yourself, if you run the right commands forge will do it itself.

 

Other than that, just follow the tutorial you were following.

 

Also, I suggest you run setupDecompWorkspace instead of setupDevWorkspace.  I have been having some issues with it, but it supposedly gives you decompiled Minecraft code to work with.

True, you may not *need* to install gradle yourself, But I do it myself because it means I can remove 2 more files from my git, makes for a cleaner setup.

In repos it's advised that you keep the wrapper so that people who DONT have gradle installed can use your repo.

True enough, I suppose. I wonder if I should include the gradle folder and the wrapper jar, or does gradlew get that automatically for you... time to bug Abrar

Er no... gradlew IS the wrapper...

No, the gradle wrapper is a jar file and 2 scripts.

The Jar file is needed to download files as windows is stupid and doesn't have a standard cli file downloader.

So the wrapper constits of the 'gradle' folder and 'gradlew.bat/.sh' files.