Hello, I am trying to add to my buildSrc file the dependency for

org.gradle.kotlin.dsl

but I can't find it.

Have a read at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#sec:kotlin-dsl_plugin You don’t “depend on the kotlin-dsl”, instead you apply the plugin documented above.

Hi @eskatos, I know it but I am creating my own plugins inside

buildSrc

, then I got

implementation

cant be used directly so I have to create my own function directly to use it. This can be tedious because there are a lot of functions, even I have two different

implementation

...

fun DependencyHandler.implementation(dependencyNotation: Any): Dependency? {
    return add("implementation", dependencyNotation)
}

if you want to get the type safe accessors generated you need to use the

plugins {}

block to apply other plugins

But if I use the

plugin {}

block then later it can't compile where I use

plugins {
    MyPlugin
}

it should work if your plugin ID is

MyPlugin

I have not added a id directly, I only put the code of the screenshot inside MyPlugin.gradle.kts

I guess we’re not talking about the same thing. Sorry for the confusion. In your screenshot above, try replacing

apply(plugin = Plugins.androidLibrary)
apply<AndroidBaseSetupPlugin>()
apply<AndroidBaseAppSetupPlugin>()

by a

plugins {}

block that applies the same plugins (need to be by plugin ID) then you’ll get the type safe accessors to e.g.

implementation()

Yeah, I got the problem, I cant use Plugins.androidLibrary as id(...) if I put the string directly it works. I will have to create it as ProjectDependencySpec to add to the plugins block, thank you 🙂

Happy to help!

@eskatos I am having another use case where I haven't any plugin so I can access to dependencies block but not to every function

Type safe accessors aren’t available for all use cases, that’s expected. See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#type-safe-accessors for the list of use cases and how to deal with their absence.