How do I tell IntelliJ about groovy installed with brew on OSX

I'm running:

• IntelliJ Ultimate 2016.3
• Homebrew 1.1.2
• OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan

I ran brew install groovy which resulted in groovy being installed in /usr/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/. Brew also added a symlink: /usr/local/bin/groovy -> ../Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/bin/groovy

When I open the groovy project in IntelliJ, it gives me an option to Configure a Groovy SDK. I haven't set this up yet, so I get a "Create" button, which launches finder. From what I can tell there's nothing that I can select to make IntelliJ happy. I've tried /user/local/bin/groovy, /user/local/Cellar/groovy, /user/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7, /user/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7/bin etc. No mater which I choose, IntelliJ doesn't accept the library and continues to tell me "Error: library is not specified".

Does anyone know how I'm supposed to go about telling IntelliJ where groovy is?

Solution 1:

1. Install groovysdk:

   brew remove groovy 
   brew install groovysdk

2. Set GROOVY_HOME, otherwise Intellij reports as broken installation:

   export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec

3. Point IntelliJ to the installed directory, e.g.:

   /usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk/2.4.7/libexec

Solution 2:

brew install groovysdk

• Right-Click on Project Root Folder or if a Config Wizard Pops up at the top of your windows we can click that link.

• Select Add Project Framework Support

• Scroll down and select Groovy

  If it does not show in the list; it's because it already has the framework added.

• If Groovy has not been added to IntellJ then Select Create...

• browse /usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk//libexec/ e.g: /usr/local/Cellar/groovysdk/2.4.11/libexec/

  Gotcha - It does show file browser that does not let you view your /usr/local file path, you need to press shift + command + g will open a dialog where you can type the path of any folder that you want to open

Done.

Solution 3:

/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec.

use brew info groovy to print help:

==> Caveats
  You should set GROOVY_HOME:
    export GROOVY_HOME=/usr/local/opt/groovy/libexec

Solution 4:

I did this with Intellij IDEA 2016.3 on OS X.

I am able to configure this under Project Settings -> Global Libraries.

1. Add a new global library by clicking the + and select Java

2. Navigate to the location homebrew installed Groovy, /usr/local/Cellar/groovy/2.4.7 and select all the JAR files in the libexec/lib directory.

3. Set the name to groovy-2.4.7, or whatever works for you.