diff --git a/build-support/src/main/kotlin/aws/sdk/kotlin/gradle/crt/CMakeTasks.kt b/build-support/src/main/kotlin/aws/sdk/kotlin/gradle/crt/CMakeTasks.kt
index b35e600f..19f3699a 100644
--- a/build-support/src/main/kotlin/aws/sdk/kotlin/gradle/crt/CMakeTasks.kt
+++ b/build-support/src/main/kotlin/aws/sdk/kotlin/gradle/crt/CMakeTasks.kt
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ private fun runCmake(project: Project, target: KotlinNativeTarget, cmakeArgs: Li
     val useContainer = target.konanTarget in containerCompileTargets &&
         target.konanTarget.name !in disableContainerTargets
 
-    project.exec {
+    project.providers.exec {
         workingDir(project.rootDir)
         val exeArgs = cmakeArgs.toMutableList()
         val exeName = if (useContainer) {
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ private fun runCmake(project: Project, target: KotlinNativeTarget, cmakeArgs: Li
         project.logger.info("$exeName ${exeArgs.joinToString(separator = " ")}")
         executable(exeName)
         args(exeArgs)
-    }
+    }.result.get() // providers.exec is lazy, so fetch the result here to ensure the command executes
 }
 
 private fun validateCrossCompileScriptsAvailable(project: Project, script: String) {
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index bf3beeb7..4ba2524e 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.2-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.0.0-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists