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Popular options include SourceTree from Atlassian, TortoiseHg for Windows, or the command line tools from Mercurial. On Windows, you can also install Mercurial as a cygwin Cygwin package.
Gradle
Gradle is the primary build tool for building OpenJFX. Since the repository includes a Gradle wrapper that will download the correct Gradle version when needed, you do not need to manually install Gradle. We currently use Gradle 4.8 for jfx-dev (IMPORTANT: Only this version is regularly tested). If you want to generate a wrapper yourself (for example, you want to build OpenJFX with a different Gradle version), then you will need to install Gradle.
Note: gradle is available as a Ubuntu package, but check the version. This command should work after you set JAVA_HOME:
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