Install Grails from Git on Windows
Category : How-to
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Good news: installing Grails from source is easy-peasey on Windows! Before you get started, you’ll need to have git and a JDK installed.
You can download both git and the JDK from the following locations:
- Git: http://git-scm.com/download/win
- JDK: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
Once these are both installed, set the JAVA_HOME variable from a command prompt. You’ll need to locate the exact java version which is in your Program Files\Java folder as it changes with each version.
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set JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25 |
Move to the folder where you would like to deploy Grails.
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cd c:\apps\ |
And run the git clone command to start downloading the source.
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git clone git://github.com/grails/grails-core.git |
Move into the folder which was created with the git clone command.
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cd grails-core |
Finally run the install command which will download any further dependencies and compile the application.
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gradlew.bat install |
And that’s it! I told you it was easy.
