the exposed test suite does not work on lastest macos, i created an issue for it https://github.com/JetBrains/Exposed/issues/894 but I’m not sure whats the best replacement for the outdated lib.

The workaround is to replace it with test-containers, but it will require docker to be installed.

how do i tell it to use test-containers?

Oh, sorry, I tell it wrong - not a workaround but a way to go 🙂 It will require the changes in a project. As a workaround you could exclude mysql from tests with

exposed.test.dialects=sqlite,h2,h2_mysql,postgresql,postgresqlng

as system properties.

hmm,

./gradlew -Dexposed.test.dialects=sqlite,h2,h2_mysql,postgresql,postgresqlng build

does not work for me. it still wants to start mysql

Could you try to specify propery like this: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/build_environment.html#sec:gradle_system_properties

same. my guess is that some tests always use mysql