Buildship can not find dependency; Gradle can

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I have buildship 1.0.12 installed in eclipse. When I run the build.gradle from a windows command prompt, it completes successfully. When I try to run it by highlighting my build.gradle and using “run configurations” it fails because it says it cannot find tools.jar. Prior to running the jar task I print the dependencies and it shows the tools.jar file.

Gradle User Home: C:\Users\Mike.gradle
Gradle Distribution: Gradle wrapper from target build
Gradle Version: 2.12
Java Home: C:\Java
JVM Arguments: None
Program Arguments: None
Gradle Tasks: clean eclipse printDependencies jar

:clean
:eclipseClasspath
:eclipseJdt
:eclipseProject
:eclipse
:printDependencies
C:\Java\jdk1.8.0_77\lib\tools.jar
C:\Users\Mike.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\com.microsoft.sqlserver\sqljdbc4\4.2.6420.100\4d8a1bc64ddf2099dbc2a171e113f6654a1c02a6\sqljdbc4-4.2.6420.100.jar
C:\Users\Mike.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\org.slf4j\slf4j-api\1.7.10\5b338f206827d88acd890739f400a9b7664e5984\slf4j-api-1.7.10.jar
C:\Users\Mike.gradle\caches\modules-2\files-2.1\ch.qos.logback\logback-classic\1.1.2\b316e9737eea25e9ddd6d88eaeee76878045c6b2\logback-classic-1.1.2.jar
. . . .
:compileJava FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • What went wrong:
    Execution failed for task ‘:compileJava’.

Could not find tools.jar

  • Try:
    Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

tools.jar IS located in C:\Java\jdk1.8.0_77\lib

Any ideas on what could be my issue?

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Hi Mike,

the tools.jar does not belong on your dependency list. It is not one of your dependencies, it is the compiler.

You are probably running Eclipse with a JRE instead of a JDK. Buildship starts Gradle with the same runtime that Eclipse uses by default. There are several solutions you can go for, but the simplest is this one:

In your ~/.gradle/gradle.properties, set the org.gradle.java.home property. This will ensure that Gradle uses this Java installation no matter from where it is started. See the user guide for more information

Cheers,
Stefan