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Hi guys, is it possible to set a breakpoint on a build.gradle.kts file? So we could inpect what is happening on IntelliJ?

I was able to do something like that with `build.gradle` but not `build.gradle.kts`, but maybe I missing something.

there is a Action in idea called `Debug Build Process`, it is disabled on each restart i think

i am not sure you can set breakpoints directly in the build.gradle.kts file but maybe as firs action you could call to some .kt file in `buildSrc` and set a breakpoint there

i hav not tried that yet
but i know it works for debugging annotation processors

just tested and yes it works to set a breakpoint i nthe buildscript: <https://i.imgur.com/My2IRLl.png>

1. double tap shift, search for Debug Build Process and enable it
2. set breakpoints
3. run any gradle task as debug

i tried this i nthe plugins block and there the breakpoint got hit but i nthe rest of the project t seems to not work

breakpoints on top level statements are ignored unfortunately, but you can make it work by adding your breakpoint on non-top-level statements
see <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-23526>

Hum, I didn’t know that, thanks <@U19P7SPFW>.

<@UBBFK40RZ>, thanks for this tip too. Indeed I tried to do as you but I haven’t success yet. I tried to put breakpoints in several parts of my main build.gradle.kts where I put on a place similar to yours. I tried to dispatch on a debug mode a gradle task in the `run configurations`, are you running the build process this way?

Even with the top level limitation I was hoping to activate at least one breakpoint

my build.gradle.kts is like the following:

```
plugins {
	kotlin("multiplatform") version "1.3.20"
}

group = "com.example"
version = "0.0.1"

allprojects {
	// Workaround to avoid downloading dependencies every time.
	repositories {
		mavenLocal().apply { //I tried to put here
			content { // also here
				excludeGroup("Kotlin/Native")
			}
		}
		maven { //here
			url = uri("<https://dl.bintray.com/soywiz/soywiz>") // here
			content { // and here too
				includeGroup("com.soywiz")
				excludeGroup("Kotlin/Native")
			}
		}
		jcenter() {
			content {
				excludeGroup("Kotlin/Native")
			}
		}
		google().apply {
			content {
				excludeGroup("Kotlin/Native")
			}
		}
	}
}
```

<@UBBFK40RZ>, did you do something more to get the breakpoints working (even if not all works is ok). I tried to enable the “Debug Build Process” in the double shift option. Then I inserted various debugs in the `build.gradle.kts` file and also in some internal classes like `ProjectExtensions`. Then I created a `Gradle` run configuration with the `build` as the task and started this run configuration in debug mode. But it is still not working. Am I missing something? I’m very needing this. Thanks in advance.

nah thats exactly what i did, i do not remember doing anything more
worst case you can always debug via loads of `logger::lifecycle` calls