can u compile it?

No

Error:(2, 7) Kotlin: Unresolved reference: DependsOn

To see yourself @Czar @qwert_ukg just add

compile 'com.github.holgerbrandl:kscript-annotations:1.1'

to a project and add a

@file:DependsOn("de.mpicbg.scicomp:kutils:0.4")

somewhere before a

package

statement.

How is DependsOn defined?

It is, see https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript-annotations/blob/master/src/main/kotlin/ScriptDirectives.kt#L5

Oh, you have the annotation in different package than your file, you just need to import, and by the way it is really bad idea to use default package. To fix specifically your example add

import MyAnno

after package declaration.

Thanks a lot for the nice explanation. I incorrectly assumed that the default package would be inferred from the source root directory structure, but in fact kotlin assumes the root package as default, if no package is specified. That’s why the

import MyAnno

is not need without the package statement.

You're welcome, you can look up Kotlin docs on the matter here: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/packages.html It's quite brief, so won't take much time.

Still the import should work imho so https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21630