Building CorDapps against a non-release branch
It is advisable to develop CorDapps against the most recent Corda stable release. However, you may need to build a CorDapp against an unstable non-release branch if your CorDapp uses a very recent feature, or you are using the CorDapp to test a PR on the main codebase.
To work against a non-release branch, proceed as follows:
Clone the Corda repository
Check out the branch or commit of the Corda repository you want to work against
Make a note of the
gradlePluginsVersion
in the rootconstants.properties
file of the Corda repositoryClone the Corda Gradle Plugins repository
Check out the tag of the Corda Gradle Plugins repository corresponding to the
gradlePluginsVersion
Follow the instructions in the readme of the Corda Gradle Plugins repository to install this version of the Corda Gradle plugins locally
Open a terminal window in the folder where you cloned the Corda repository
Publish Corda to your local Maven repository using the following commands:
Unix/Mac OSX:
./gradlew install
Windows:
gradlew.bat install
- Make a note of the
corda_release_version
in the rootbuild.gradle
file of the Corda repository. - In your CorDapp’s root
build.gradle
file:- Update
ext.corda_release_version
to thecorda_release_version
noted down earlier. - Update
corda_gradle_plugins_version
to thegradlePluginsVersion
noted down earlier - for Corda Enterprise 4.7 this must beext.corda_gradle_plugins_version = '5.0.12'
.
- Update