How to create Kotlin console application that would actually open in a console window - windows

Question

I'm trying to create a Kotlin console app using IntelliJ Idea.
For some reason it doesn't run as a console app.
I'm using IntelliJ IDEA 2020.3.1 (Community Edition) on Windows 10.
What I do is as follows - I create a new Kotlin project out of the "Console Application" template. I choose openjdk-15 as the Project JDK:
It generates a project consisting of a simple "Hello world" function:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
println("Hello World!")
}
When run it, it simply terminates (as expected) - without opening any console window though:
If I add some code that would require interaction from the user:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
val name = readLine()
println("Hello $name!")
}
Once try to execute it, it builds but then hangs, never completing. Apparently it waits for the user input that's never submitted.
This is understandable, but underlines the problem - so where's the console??
I tried to fiddle with "Edit Configurations"
Do I possibly need a different JDK?
What is the solution if I simply want to build a regular console application running in text mode? (Like one I could trivially create using Visual Studio.)

Answer 1

You ran it with Gradle so you don't actually get an interactive console (just the text output of Gradle).
Go to settings and under Build, Execution, Deployment -> Build Tools -> Gradle set Build and run using: to IntelliJ.
When you run your program IntelliJ (and not Gradle) complies and runs it and you can actually see an interactive console window (inside IntelliJ).
If you wan't to build/ship the app you'll have to build it with Gradle (I recommend the Shadow Plugin to make a single jar file out of it) and run the .jar file inside a console (java -jar myApp.jar).