but thats more your build system

i’m using kotlin gradle dsl

Can you please guide me to a good example project that uses gradle dsl?

Found one here: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/build.gradle.kts

Ok, will try that.

I can create a simple app from IDEA that creates a .iml project file (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/jvm-get-started.html) but I haven't figured out how to create a corresponding gradle dsl build file.

i guess it can be confusing using the gradle kotlin dsl to build a kotlin project lol

I installed gradle + pointed out its root in the settings. I also created the file build.gradle.kts at the project root that looks like this. When I enter the module settings I can see that IDEA doesn't understand where my src folders live, and therefore I can't execute a main function under on of the two src-folders:

plugins {
    kotlin("jvm") version "1.3.72"
}

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath(kotlin("gradle-plugin", version = "1.3.72"))
    }
}

sourceSets.main {
    java.srcDirs("components/logger/src",
                 "components/user/src")
}

I get the error 'gradle-wrapper.properties' not found.

After executing "gradle wrapper" I don't have that error message, but I can still not execute my function (which worked when I had my src folder on the root).