Hi, i am trying to setup gradle on intellij, when i try to run the Main function in org.gradle.launcher.Main i am getting the error in the first image, i tried to debug a little and found out when running it is looking for a gradle-kotlin-dsl-versions.properties file at line 29th in second image. I could not find this file anywhere, is this supposed to be any properties file i am supposed to initialize? or am i doing something wrong? please help.

It isn’t clear why you’re trying to run the Gradle launcher Main directly. If your goal is to “run Gradle” the IDE offers a Gradle integration to sync, run Gradle tasks, using the Gradle tooling API to handle all that. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/gradle.html

I wanted to just check the lifecycle of a gradle command in the code to understand the flow, from start to finish, how does it execute

You can use any Gradle build and there use "Debug" to run a Gradle task and debug into the Gradle code.

if you wanted to explore, you could also try debugging some of the tests https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/v8.7.0/platforms/core-runtime/launcher/src/test/groovy/org/gradle/launcher/MainTest.groovy

although it took like forever, i could debug a command and kinda understand a little flow , thanks a lot🙏

It's more that subprojects is the old structure and things get gradually moved to the new platforms structure: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/architecture%2Fstandards%2F0004-use-a-platform-architecture.md

Hi, sorry to ask this, but i want to build a project using code instead of a jar or wrapper or cli, what is the best way to start the build using code?

The Tooling API