[GROOVY-10468] Ability to define system properties for groovyc using CompilerConfiguration

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.9, 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.10, 4.0.1
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Marcin Zajaczkowski
• Created: 31/Jan/22 23:19
• Updated: 08/Mar/22 12:16
• Resolved: 16/Feb/22 02:46

Description

In some cases, it would be useful to be able to define system properties for groovyc using CompilerConfiguration.

The real life example is a limitation of Idea which doesn't allow to provide system properties for groovyc (just for javac) - https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-287642 . As a result, Spock 2.0-groovy-3.0 cannot be easily compiled in Idea if Maven project is imported.

There are probably also some other situations where CompilerConfiguration might be more handy than playing with Gradle/Maven/Ant/Netbeans configurations.