I am trying to publish my first library to MavenCe...

# gradle

[LastExceed]

I am trying to publish my first library to MavenCentral, but i have trouble figuring out how to do it.
I followed this guide: https://central.sonatype.org/pages/ossrh-guide.html to create whatever this is: https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-56105
then i tried to configure Gradle with these instructions: https://central.sonatype.org/pages/gradle.html which turn out to be outdated according to this documentation: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_setup.html so i'm trying to follow that instead, but this documentation isn't very helpful. It suggests using the publishing {} block which isn't even possible (workaround here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54654376/why-is-publishing-function-not-being-found-in-my-custom-gradle-kts-file-within ) and doesn't give me any information on how to configure it for a kotlin project.
can someone help me? maybe someone has a working project setup that i can look at ? I am completely lost

[Dariusz Kuc]

Take a look at https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/blob/master/build.gradle.kts

[Dariusz Kuc]

TLDR I've used maven-publishing, signing, nexus-staging and nexus-publish plugins

[Dariusz Kuc]

If you are publishing single lib and dont care about automatic release then you can skip the last two

[mbonnin]

+1. You really want to use the maven-publishing plugin. If you can't use the publishing {} block, that's most likely because you're using the "old" apply method for your plugins instead of the plugins block but you can still do the same by using configure<PublishingExtension> {} instead of publishing {}