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Something is for whatever reason trying to read or change or create that

....lck

file in

C:\WINDOWS

which typically is only writable with administrative privileges. I'd assume that Gradle 7 vs. Gradle 8 is actually a red herring. Try to find out why your build is tring to work with that file at that location and maybe change that in your build.

And check if you have overriden env var or system property for temporary directory since most libs unpack their native bindings to temp dir to load them and somehow that directory was inside read only system directory

thanks for advices, it seems some people also have similar issue on windows https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/281439481