# Refresh Gradle project without executing **URL:** \ **Category:** Buildship\ **Created:** [September 27, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/refresh-gradle-project-without-executing/19751 "2016-09-27T16:46:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sc1478](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/sc1478/32/4341_2.png) [@sc1478](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/sc1478)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/refresh-gradle-project-without-executing/19751/1 "2016-09-27T16:46:13Z")
An annoyance with Buildship is developing a build and/or plugins in Eclipse on Windows with Exec commands for which the real destination is a some unix system somewhere. I’d like the convenience of being able to code the thing in Eclipse, but the Gradle-refresh and import-Gradle features will fail because Gradle can’t find the commands on the Windows system. Would be nice if there was some way to avoid the failing of the refresh/import in this situation. ---
**Author:** ![st\_oehme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/st_oehme/32/5249_2.png) [@st\_oehme](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/st_oehme)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/refresh-gradle-project-without-executing/19751/2 "2016-09-28T08:17:38Z")
Sounds like you are running the exec-commands during the configuration phase, which makes it impossible for Gradle to configure the project on Windows. You’ll have to make sure that your exec-actions are either skipped on Windows or only run during the execution phase. ---
**Author:** ![sc1478](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/sc1478/32/4341_2.png) [@sc1478](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/sc1478)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/refresh-gradle-project-without-executing/19751/3 "2016-09-28T14:29:51Z")
Yeah that’s it, thanks. But in my case the command is explicitly part of the configuration process. So I either check the os before or catch the Exception.