How to setup gradle with Intellij IDEA with WSL2 project?

Question

I have a project cloned inside ubuntu wsl \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\username\project. Opened it inside Intellij IDEA Ultimate 2020.1.3 and tried to import as gradle project, but I am getting uninformative error message:

Here's my gradle config in IDEA:

The question is how should I open my project in IDEA then?

EDIT:

Logs from imported project contain this stack trace. Possibly this causes the issue.

org.gradle.tooling.GradleConnectionException: Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.5.1-all.zip'.
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.DistributionFactory$ZippedDistribution.getToolingImplementationClasspath(DistributionFactory.java:139)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.GradleConnectorService$DistributionWrapper.getToolingImplementationClasspath(GradleConnectorService.kt:287)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.loader.CachingToolingImplementationLoader.create(CachingToolingImplementationLoader.java:41)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.loader.SynchronizedToolingImplementationLoader.create(SynchronizedToolingImplementationLoader.java:44)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.connection.LazyConsumerActionExecutor.onStartAction(LazyConsumerActionExecutor.java:147)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.connection.LazyConsumerActionExecutor.run(LazyConsumerActionExecutor.java:129)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.connection.CancellableConsumerActionExecutor.run(CancellableConsumerActionExecutor.java:45)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.connection.ProgressLoggingConsumerActionExecutor.run(ProgressLoggingConsumerActionExecutor.java:61)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.connection.RethrowingErrorsConsumerActionExecutor.run(RethrowingErrorsConsumerActionExecutor.java:38)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.async.DefaultAsyncConsumerActionExecutor.lambda$run$0(DefaultAsyncConsumerActionExecutor.java:62)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:64)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:48)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:56)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Incorrect function
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcherImpl.lock0(Native Method)
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.FileDispatcherImpl.lock(FileDispatcherImpl.java:100)
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.tryLock(FileChannelImpl.java:1161)
    at java.base/java.nio.channels.FileChannel.tryLock(FileChannel.java:1165)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.ExclusiveFileAccessManager.access(ExclusiveFileAccessManager.java:55)
    at org.gradle.wrapper.Install.createDist(Install.java:48)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.DistributionInstaller.install(DistributionInstaller.java:72)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.DistributionFactory$ZippedDistribution.getToolingImplementationClasspath(DistributionFactory.java:133)
    ... 15 more

EDIT2: Attaching full logs of instantiating new project with gradle init command: https://pastebin.com/G4xhR3N3

Answer 1

Workaround that was useful in my case (I have WSL 2):

• Create a project folder in your Windows filesystem.
• Using mklink and mklink /D, create symbolic links to your WSL files and folders (I have the WSL 2 filesystem, \wsl$, mounted as my L: drive, probably this is a requirement). The mklink command requires to be run as Administrator (run cmd.exe as Admin). Example: "mklink /D src L:\home\john\project\src". List of files that I sym-linked:
  • <SYMLINKD> .git/ (edit: git support in Windows side doesn't work with this approach, as git detects the difference between symlinks and regular files; however, you can still use git on WSL).
  • <SYMLINK> .gitignore
  • <SYMLINK> build.gradle
  • <SYMLINK> settings.gradle
  • <SYMLINKD> src/
• Notice .gradle, gradle, gradew, gradlew.bat, and .idea don't have symbolic links. WSL should have its own .gradle and build folders, and no IntelliJ gradle wrapper.
• IntelliJ Gradle and WSL gradle should work fine and independently this way.