Workaround for gradle application plugin 'the input line is too long' error on Windows

build.gradle

tasks.withType(CreateStartScripts).each { task ->
    task.doLast {
        String text = task.windowsScript.text
        text = text.replaceFirst(/(set CLASSPATH=%APP_HOME%\\lib\\).*/, { "${it[1]}*" })
        task.windowsScript.write text
    }
}

Helpful workaround. A slightly cleaner approach in the same vein is to override the classpath property in the startScripts, which is the pre-configured task of type CreateStartScripts added by the "application" plugin.

startScripts {
    classpath = files( '$APP_HOME/lib/*' )
}