Do I understand correctly that in order to use

@file:DependsOn

in scripts, I also need to separately pre-install maven in order to be able to install the dependencies? Or does maven somehow come together with the kotlin compiler?

There is a resolver built-in you shouldn't need anything else as long as your dependency is on maven central

Thank you very much for the quick response!

And if you need some other repository, there is also

@file:Repository

Note that, for this support to kick in, you need to be using a script definition that has such dependency resolution support. For instance, the

main-kts

script definition does, so you would get that support in scripts with the

.main.kts

extension.