Hello,

I have struggled to get the project to build and to figure out where to get a 
local developent environment started. I’ve started in the standard location one 
would start [1]. From there, I’m quickly pointed to [2]. From here I get the 
impression that I’m to run a local instance of MariaDB, and then run the gradle 
commands:

        ./gradlew createDB -PdbName=fineract_tenants
        ./gradlew createDB -PdbName=fineract_default
        ./gradlew bootRun

however these seem to result in build failures. I’m using java-17 locally on my 
mac (the amazon corretto model). My gradle --version prints out the following:

        chtompki@Robs-MacBook-Pro-2 ~ % gradle --version

        Welcome to Gradle 8.1.1!

        Here are the highlights of this release:
         - Stable configuration cache
         - Experimental Kotlin DSL assignment syntax
         - Building with Java 20

        For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/8.1.1/release-notes.html


        ------------------------------------------------------------
        Gradle 8.1.1
        ------------------------------------------------------------

        Build time:   2023-04-21 12:31:26 UTC
        Revision:     1cf537a851c635c364a4214885f8b9798051175b

        Kotlin:       1.8.10
        Groovy:       3.0.15
        Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.11 compiled on July 10 2021
        JVM:          17.0.7 (Amazon.com Inc. 17.0.7+7-LTS)
        OS:           Mac OS X 13.4 aarch64


The difficulty to get started here is a bit frustrating - it’s quite hard to 
find the ins and outs of the project and get going. I am really hoping to spend 
a bit of my time polishing this up and the surrounding documentation (where’s 
that stored? the wiki?). Streamlining this process will allow us to get a 
larger number of contributors which is a priority, in my opinion.

Thoughts, questions, concerns?

Cheers,
-Rob



[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Getting+Started+Docs
[2] https://github.com/apache/fineract/blob/develop/README.md

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