I need to add a dependency from an other local project. I've followed <this SO answer> ```include(":...

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[Philip Dukhov]

I need to add a dependency from an other local project. I've followed this SO answer

include(":module-name")
project(":module-name").projectDir = File("../../project-dir/")

But I'm getting an error about unrecognized class from buildSrc folder of OtherProject, from other project gradle.build file. Itself OtherProject builds fine. Do I need to add buildSrc explicitly somehow?

Edit. I've tried includeBuild as @Vampire suggested, but it doesn't seems working with my KMM module. I'm using this code:

includeBuild("../../project-dir/") {
    dependencySubstitution {
        substitute(module("com.project:module-name"))
            .with(project(":module-name"))
    }
}

Which produces the following error

ArtifactNotFoundException: Could not find kotlinx-coroutines-core-1.5.1-native-mt-samplessources.jar

[Vampire]

What you do is a very bad idea.
You add that other build as subproject under your multi-project build.
That is in 98.7 % a very bad idea.
What you are after is a composite build, where you use includeBuild, not include and it will automatically substitute the binary dependency on the artifact from that build by a "sub-build".
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/userguide_single.html#composite_builds

[Philip Dukhov]

@Vampire Thanks, that seems like the right way to do it, unfortunately it doesn't work with the KMM module 🙄

[Jeff Lockhart]

Very similar question I just had myself below!

[Vampire]

Well, I have no idea about KMM, so if it does not work with a composite build, you probably have to deploy to some local repo manually and then use that in the other project.

[Luc Girardin]

I am faced with the same problem and created a skeleton project to exemplify the issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-50064