How to make standalone kotlin apps with gradle?

I tried to make a simple “Hello World” kotlin app, with all dependencies stored within it.
Heres the code:

package com.neel.helloworld
fun main(args: Array) {
var str: String = “Hello world”
var name: String = “Neel”
str = str + " from " + name
println(str)
println(“whats up?”)
}

This is my gradle script:

buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = ‘1.1.51’
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version”
}
}
apply plugin: ‘kotlin’
apply plugin: ‘application’
mainClassName = ‘com.neel.helloworld.HelloKt’
defaultTasks ‘run’
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:$kotlin_version”
testCompile ‘junit:junit:4.11’
testCompile “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit:$kotlin_version”
}
jar {
manifest {
attributes ‘Main-Class’: ‘com.neel.helloworld.HelloKt’
}
//NEWLINE
from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }
}

What i get is an error hen i try to run the resultant jar file which is at /projectroot/build/lib/. The error is:

$java -jar HelloWorld2.jar
Error: Could not find or load main class com.neel.helloworld.HelloKt

I forgot to mention but the name of the file is Hello.kt.
This i tried to build with this command:
$gradle jar

Is my gradle file wrong,and where so? Pls help.

Your Jar file is just a zip file with a different extension. Have a look at it. What class files are contained in the Jar?

The most probable explanation is that you assigned package but did not place your Hello.kt into appropriate directory. JVM expects class file with name com.neel.helloworld.HelloKt to be in com/neel/helloworld directory relative to classpath root.