How to: Install Gradle on Windows

Step 1: Download the latest version of Gradle from the official site.

Step 2: Extract the contents into a folder e.g. "C:\gradle-2.3".

Step 3: Open up the environment variables window. To do this:

1. Right click on your computer and click "Manage"
2. Click "Advanced System Settings"
3. Click "Environment Variables"

Step 4: Add new System Variable (or user variable if you only want it on your user account).

Step 5: Click New and enter Environment Variable as "GRADLE_HOME" and value as the bin directory of your Gradle installation path from step 2 e.g. "C:\gradle-2.3\bin". Press OK. 

Step 6: Find the "Path" variable and press Edit. Scroll to the end of the text and add the text "%GRADLE_HOME%". Remember to separate from previous entry with a semi-colon ";". 

Step 6: Press OK to exit the environment variable window and advanced system settings. 

Step 7: Open up a command prompt window. (press windows button and enter "cmd" as a shortcut). 

Step 8: Check Gradle version by entering text "gradle -v". If installation has been successful you should see something like the following: 

C:\Users\username>gradle -v

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Gradle 2.3

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Build time:   2015-02-16 05:09:33 UTC

Build number: none

Revision:     586be72bf6e3df1ee7676d1f2a3afd9157341274

Groovy:       2.3.9

Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013

JVM:          1.7.0_25 (Oracle Corporation 23.25-b01)

OS:           Windows 8 6.2 amd64

You should now be set up for using Gradle.