Is there a way to only have

kotlin_version

defined in one place when using gradle kts and buildSrc? I’ve tried having an object inside of buildSrc, but I can’t reference that in buildSrc’s

build.gradle.kts

plugin block itself. I’ve tried putting it into gradle.properties and reading it out, which requried a workaround I found on github, but then didn’t work outside of the

buildSrc

module. This seems like something there should be a good accepted solution for

I'm using embeddedKotlinVersion https://gradle.github.io/kotlin-dsl-docs/api/org.gradle.kotlin.dsl/embedded-kotlin-version.html

so, that’s just for the build itself, right? ie, my app can still use 1.3.50?

That version comes from gradle-kotlin-dsl plugin. Mine is pretty recent (

1.3.41

), but yes, that's the Kotlin version you use in your project.

I’ll look into it, thanks

One workaround would be define

val kotlinVersion = "1.3.50"

and add that to ext, then you can use the variable in your buildscript and the ext in the other modules.

I feel like I’ve tried that and it still bails in the

plugin

block

That's right... Let me take a look.

Interesting. That’s what I’d tried to do, but couldn’t get access to the

Versions

object within the

plugins { }

block at runtime

Did you add the

build.gradle.kts

to

buildSrc

root?

plugins {
    `kotlin-dsl`
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

yeah, that was the plugin block that was having problems

Can't think of anything but gradle version then

well ok, now it’s working. I took the

kotlin("jvm")

plugin out from `buildSrc`’s

build.gradle.kts

file and now things are working