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Any hints how to properly  configurate shadow plugin? Getting these errors and since I have very limited experience with gradle and shadow plugin it’s not clear wha’t wrong (except for that some things are obviously missing) <https://gist.github.com/jcechace/96e8dd2801b677a50a87cebb42e81748>

can you share your gradle file ? its possible you may be forced to use `compile`/`api` instead of `implementation` on some things - but thats just a random guess

using compile on most of the things.  <https://gist.github.com/jcechace/6c1084defc5f15b67445b4fe44e4333c>

first thing:
```
base {
    archivesBaseName = "app"
}
```
second: shadowJar does not like being applied before setting the mainclassname (at least when i am using it)
you can get around that with `id("shadojar etc" version "2.0.4" )apply false`

i configure it like this:
```
plugins {
    ...
    id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow") version "4.0.0" apply false
}
apply&lt;ApplicationPlugin&gt;()

                configure&lt;JavaApplication&gt; {
                    mainClassName = "package.MainKt"
                }

                apply(plugin = "com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")

                val runDir = rootProject.file("run")

                val run by tasks.getting(JavaExec::class) {
                    workingDir = runDir
                }

                val runShadow by tasks.getting(JavaExec::class) {
                    workingDir = runDir
                }

                val shadowJar by tasks.getting(ShadowJar::class) {
                    classifier = ""
                    archiveName = "${project.name.toLowerCase()}-${Env.versionSuffix}.$extension"
                }

                val build by tasks.getting(Task::class) {
                    dependsOn(shadowJar)
                }
```

i am not sure if the Java Application stuff is stil necessary, at least for a while it did not like using the generated accesors

i vopied it out of a much more complex usecase where i set up runnable subprojects based on a Map&lt;Project, String&gt;

```application {
    mainClassName = "io.apiman.watcher.WatcherAppKt"
}``` should do the same

also is there something else going on beside configuring the runDir to the one where “run” file is located”

Hmm fails with ```gradle assembleShadowDist --warning-mode all
The AbstractFileCollection.getBuildDependencies() method has been deprecated. This is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 5.0. com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.internal.DependencyFileCollection extends AbstractFileCollection. Do not extend AbstractFileCollection. Use Project.files() instead.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 0s
6 actionable tasks: 6 up-to-date```

Turn out, only `apply(plugin = "com.github.johnrengelman.shadow")` was needed. Thanks <@UBBFK40RZ>