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Download Geode source from one of two places: find a specific Apache Geode (incubating) release at httpshttp://githubgeode.com/apache/incubator-geodeapache.org/releases or use the head of the develop branch at https://github.com/apache/incubator-geode. Build instructions for each Apache Geode (incubating) release are in the README.md or BUILDING.md file within the release. Both sets of the source code use the standard Gradle lifecycle model.

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git clone -b develop https://github.com/apache/incubator-geode.git

Build on Unix

Within the incubator-geode directory, to build, run the tests, create binary artifacts, and create a distribution:

./gradlew build installDist

To build, create binary artifacts and create a distribution, but not run the tests:

./gradlew build installDist -Dskip.tests=true

The gfsh script will be in two places. One place it can be found is in  geode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/bin.

Alternatively, the gfsh script is within the built binaries. To install from the distribution The distribution archives will be located in geode-assembly/build/distributions/. To install from the distribution, extract the archive file and add the bin directory to your path.The gfsh script will also be in geode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/bin.

Build on Windows

With no There is a gradlew.bat script , Windows developers need to acquire and install Gradle, version 2.3 or a more recent versionin the develop branch of the repository at https://github.com/apache/geode, so it can be used to build from source.

Within the incubator-geode folder, to build, run the tests, create binary artifacts, and create a distribution:

gradle gradlew.bat build installDist

To build, create binary artifacts and create a distribution, but not run the tests:

gradle build installDist -Dskip.tests=true

The gfsh script will be in two places. One place it can be found is The distribution archives will be located in geode-assembly\build\install\apache-geode\bin.

Alternatively, the gfsh script is within the built binariesdistributions\. To install from the distribution in geode-assembly\build\distributions\, extract the archive file and add the bin directory  folder to your path.The gfsh.bat script will also be in geode-assembly\build\install\apache-geode\bin. 

Running Geode

To embed Geode in your application, add lib/geode-dependencies.jar to your classpath.

See the Geode Documentation for more complete documentation.

Note for Windows users: start gfsh specifying start a locator specifying this system property:

gfsh start locator --name=locator --J=-Dgemfire.OSProcess.ENABLE_OUTPUT_REDIRECTION=true