When trying to run Gradle on Windows, on a WSL filesystem (a Windows directory link to

\\wsl$\...

):

Starting Gradle Daemon...
Gradle Daemon started in 2 s 38 ms

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Gradle could not start your build.
> Could not create service of type BuildLifecycleController using ServicesProvider.createBuildLifecycleController().
   > Could not create service of type BuildModelController using VintageBuildControllerProvider.createBuildModelController().
      > Could not create service of type ScriptPluginFactory using BuildScopeServices.createScriptPluginFactory().
         > Could not create service of type FileHasher using BuildSessionServices.createFileHasher().
            > java.io.IOException: Incorrect function

I'm usually working around this by mounting the WSL filesystem via SMB in Windows, but was wondering if this could be solved with the default way Windows accesses WSL files?

Update IntelliJ: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/14725

Thanks for looking into this. The referred issue is closed basically saying "IntelliJ works around this by not running Gradle on a WSL mount". That issue resolution most likely means the problem itself is not fixed in Gradle, which would still be needed tor cases where you're not working in IntelliJ. Thankfully I am, and I'm going to try this workaround, thanks.

It has many comments and also the issues in YouTrack have. But as far as I understood the conclusions IntelliJ in newer versions fixed the problem and the problem was only there when running Gradle from IntelliJ.

I see. I'll have to do some more testing to make sure, last time I tried all this was a couple of years ago. Thanks for the help.