Gradle Kotlin Hello-World build.gradle.kts file marked red

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According to kotlin-dsl-samples/samples at master · gradle/kotlin-dsl-samples · GitHub, one should be able to use vanilla Intellij 2017.1.4 and vanilla Kotlin plugin 1.1.2-5 to open a build.gradle.kts-based project. I tried to open the hello-world sample project in Intellij. While command-line ./gradlew clean build works and produces the .jar file properly, opening the build.gradle.kts file in Intellij will make it all red and autocompletion/navigation/documentation doesn’t work. Please, what further steps do I need to take, for the build.gradle.kts to work properly?

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I have restarted IDEA couple of times, but it didn’t helped to resolve the issue.

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This is a known issue in Gradle 4.1, it should have been already fixed in the latest builds of Gradle or Kotlin IDE plugin.

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Thank you, the newest Kotlin IDE plugin 1.1.3 resolved the issue. Pure awesomeness.

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Does IntelliJ have a standard way to change the Gradle wrapper version without having to use the terminal?

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There is no standard way, but you can open the gradle.properties file from the gradle folder in the idea text editor and change it to desired version.

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Probably the better way is to run ./gradlew --gradle-version 4.0 since that also updates the gradlew scripts and gradle-wrapper.jar.

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I am seeing this issue now, I think I have all the latest stuff…
kotlin_version = “1.2.0”
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.3-bin.zip
kotlin plugin 1.2.0-release-IJ2017.3-1
IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 (Ultimate Edition)
Build #IU-173.3727.127, built on November 27, 2017

I used the New Module wizard to set it up and selected the kotlin dsl.

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Significantly easier just to restart IntelliJ until the build.gradle.kts file is parsed properly.

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Same for me. Did you solve it?

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I’m finding this issue quite annoying. Seems even with Gradle 4.4 I have to randomly add/remove the plugin java part to make it parse. Once it parses it’s okay until the next time I load up IntelliJ IDEA.

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I’m only a few days into all of Kotlin, Idea, and Gradle, so am having a bit of information overload. My build.gradle.kts file is not parsing and is marked red as well. Does this matter? What do I need to do to fix it if so? I have fresh installs of everything.

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I’ve the same issue on Windows. I’m also on latest versions Gradle 4.4.1, IDEA 2017.3.2, kotlin 1.2.10
It’s fair to say that everything work fine right after I create a new project. After I close the project and re-open it the script file never compiles. Tips from other threads like removing gradle caches don’t work.

Any tips?

Works fine under macOS tough.

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I found steps that work for me. See: Kotlin DSL syntax error for build.gradle.kts - #13 by jstuyts

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They worked for me too.