-P Parameters and Environment Variables

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I’m running Buildship on Eclipse Mars
I’ve not been able to get a -P parameter passed to the Runtime Configuration or get it to pick up an environment variable.
Its not intuitive how to configure those - I tried various settings through the (x)=arguments panel but it doesn’t recognise -P or when using a variable it thinks its a task.
Could you please provide some examples in the documentation?
Many thanks

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Passing a runtime parameter with a -P runtime argument works for me. I followed the steps below:

  1. create a sample project containing a simple build.gradle containing a sample task:

    task printVar() << {
    println Var
    }

  2. open the “Import Gradle Project” wizard, specified the sample project folder and hit next

  3. on the “Import Options” page set gradle version to 2.4 and the Program arguments to -PVar=Default

  4. click next to see the project preview and then click finish to import the project

The imported project should have the runtime argument stored in the .settings/gradle.prefs file.

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If you execute the printVar task from the task view it will print the runtime argument. This runtime argument will be added to all build execution by default.

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If you want to specify a runtime argument to one specific execution you can use the corresponding “Arguments” run configuration page.

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When executed the changes are visible.

Once we have a documentation we’ll definitely add this item too. Also, please let us know if the steps above doesn’twork for you.