# No target/releases fold after building ElasticSearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 11, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036 "2016-04-11T19:46:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@jason4zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jason4zhu)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/1 "2016-04-11T19:46:40Z")
After cloning ElasticSearch git to local and invoking `gradle build` successfully, there's no target/releases folder in **core** subproject as said in official [README.md](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch#user-content-building-from-source) document. I'm wondering whether I'm missing something or not.
Env:
Mac OSX 10.11
Gradle 2.8
JVM 1.8
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/2 "2016-04-11T20:04:13Z")
You should find a `build` folder or similar instead.
Feel free to send a PR to update the documentation. Will be highly appreciated! 🙂
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### Author:  [@jason4zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jason4zhu)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/3 "2016-04-11T20:13:30Z")
Yep, there's `core/build` folder, but I didn't find the `elasticsearch` binary file for me to launch ElasticSearch service. How could I launch the service after `gradle build`?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/4 "2016-04-11T20:42:18Z")
Have a look in `distribution/zip/build/distributions`
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### Author:  [@jason4zhu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jason4zhu)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/5 "2016-04-12T07:47:50Z")
Thanks, it works!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-target-releases-fold-after-building-elasticsearch/47036/6 "2017-07-05T23:00:23Z")