Cordova buil error

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Hi all, I know this has been asked before, but I am not able to solve it.

cordova build gives me:

Checking Java JDK and Android SDK versions

ANDROID_HOME=/Users/domenicogagliano/Library/Android/sdk (recommended setting)

ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=undefined (DEPRECATED)

Using Android SDK: /Users/domenicogagliano/Library/Android/sdk

Subproject Path: CordovaLib

Subproject Path: app

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:

Could not open settings generic class cache for settings file '/Users/domenicogagliano/cordova_test/hello/platforms/android/settings.gradle' (/Users/domenicogagliano/.gradle/caches/7.6/scripts/dqjrgsw17c62wbpoagod92e1e).

> BUG! exception in phase 'semantic analysis' in source unit '_BuildScript_' Unsupported class file major version 65

* Try:

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Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 8.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

See https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

**BUILD FAILED** in 501ms

Command failed with exit code 1: /Users/domenicogagliano/cordova_test/hello/platforms/android/gradlew -b /Users/domenicogagliano/cordova_test/hello/platforms/android/build.gradle cdvBuildDebug

Initially I had Java 22 and I dowgraded to Java 21 but the proble still persist. I am using Gradle 8.7 and I am using Mac Terminal

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You are not using Gradle 8.7, but Gradle 7.6 and that is not compatible with Java 21:

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Hi,
thanks for you reply.
the output of gradle --version is

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 8.7
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2024-03-22 15:52:46 UTC
Revision:     650af14d7653aa949fce5e886e685efc9cf97c10

Kotlin:       1.9.22
Groovy:       3.0.17
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.13 compiled on January 4 2023
JVM:          21.0.3 (Oracle Corporation 21.0.3+7-LTS-152)
OS:           Mac OS X 14.4.1 x86_64

So how I am using 7.6? Is there a setting I need to change?

This is also the content of ~/.gradle/caches

drwx------   12 domenicogagliano  staff   384 26 Apr 08:49 .
drwxr-xr-x   13 domenicogagliano  staff   416 25 Apr 14:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x   10 domenicogagliano  staff   320 26 Apr 08:49 7.6
drwxr-xr-x    9 domenicogagliano  staff   288 25 Apr 16:53 8.7
-rw-r--r--@   1 domenicogagliano  staff   181 25 Apr 14:24 CACHEDIR.TAG
drwxr-xr-x  198 domenicogagliano  staff  6336 25 Apr 17:28 jars-9
drwxr-xr-x    5 domenicogagliano  staff   160  2 May  2023 journal-1
drwxr-xr-x    8 domenicogagliano  staff   256 25 Apr 14:25 modules-2
drwxr-xr-x  108 domenicogagliano  staff  3456 25 Apr 16:56 transforms-3
drwxr-xr-x    2 domenicogagliano  staff    64 25 Apr 16:53 transforms-4
-rw-------    1 domenicogagliano  staff    28  2 May  2023 user-id.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 domenicogagliano  staff    17  2 May  2023 user-id.txt.lock

I tried to delete the directory 7.6 but once I give cordova build it comes back.

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Which Gradle version you have installed is irrelevant.
Usually, you do not even have any version of Gradle installed.
Any sane Gradle project includes the 4 Gradle wrapper files that control and manage the Gradle version that is used to execute the build if the wrapper is used and you should always use the wrapper.