distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions-snapshots/gradle-8.9-20240529002035+0000-bin.zip
networkTimeout=10000
validateDistributionUrl=true
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

|===
|Priority |Method |Location |Details

|1
|Command line interface
|.
|In the command line using `-D`.

|2
|`gradle.properties` file
|`GRADLE_USER_HOME`
|Stored in a `gradle.properties` file in the `<<directory_layout.adoc#dir:gradle_user_home,GRADLE_USER_HOME>>`.

|3
|`gradle.properties` file
|Project Root Dir

2. *Put a file called `init.gradle(.kts)`* in the `__$<<directory_layout.adoc#dir:gradle_user_home,GRADLE_USER_HOME>>__/` directory.
3. *Put a file called `init.gradle(.kts)`* in the `__$<<directory_layout.adoc#dir:gradle_user_home,GRADLE_USER_HOME>>__/init.d/` directory.
4. *Put a file called `init.gradle(.kts)`* in the `$<<installation.adoc#sec:linux_macos_users_2,__GRADLE_HOME__>>/init.d/` directory.
+

import java.io.File;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.net.URI;
import java.security.MessageDigest;

public class PathAssembler {
    public static final String GRADLE_USER_HOME_STRING = "GRADLE_USER_HOME";
    public static final String PROJECT_STRING = "PROJECT";

    private final File gradleUserHome;
    private final File projectDirectory;

    public PathAssembler(File gradleUserHome, File projectDirectory) {

To enable the Daemon by default in older Gradle versions, add the following setting to the `gradle.properties` file in the project root or your Gradle User Home (`GRADLE_USER_HOME`:

====
.gradle.properties
[source,properties]
----
org.gradle.daemon=true
----
====

[[sec:disabling_the_daemon]]
== Disable Daemon

A typical project setup places the `gradle.properties` file in the root directory of the build.
Alternatively, the file can also live in the `<<directory_layout.adoc#dir:gradle_user_home,GRADLE_USER_HOME>>` directory if you want it to apply to all builds on your machine.

====
[.multi-language-sample]
=====
[source,kotlin]
----
.
├── gradle.properties
└── settings.gradle.kts
├── subproject-a

1. Clean the cache directory to avoid any hits from previous builds (`rm -rf $GRADLE_USER_HOME/caches/build-cache-*`)
2. Run the build (e.g. `./gradlew --build-cache clean assemble`), so that all the results from cacheable tasks get stored in the cache.

By default, the Gradle User Home (`~/.gradle` or `C:\Users\<USERNAME>\.gradle`) stores global configuration properties, initialization scripts, caches, and log files.

It can be set with the environment variable `GRADLE_USER_HOME`.

TIP: Not to be confused with the `GRADLE_HOME`, the optional installation directory for Gradle.

It is roughly structured as follows:

[listing]
----
├── caches // <1>
│   ├── 4.8 // <2>

==== Change the encoding of daemon log files
In previous versions of Gradle, the daemon log file, located at `$<<directory_layout.adoc#dir:gradle_user_home,GRADLE_USER_HOME>>/daemon/{gradleVersion}/`, was encoded with the default JVM encoding.
To prevent clients that may use different default encoding from reading data incorrectly, this file is now always encoded with UTF-8.