Well, I'm trying to

import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile

, but it says

Unresolved reference: jetbrains

. So I need

kotlin-gradle-plugin

to installed somehow, right? I have

mavenLocal()

and

mavenCentral()

, how do I get the plugin into local repository and plug outta there?

try

jcenter()

in the repositories

Nope, this does not help either. Perhaps, I should mention that I'm trying to convert existing build.gradle to build.gradle.kts. Somehow the script which is in Groovy finds

compileKotlin

task, but when I try to do it in Kotlin

.kts

it does not work

can you share your .kts build file?

Here it is

You cannot/should not use buildscript and plugins block in the sae build file

Hmm, that

buildscript { repositories { ... } ... dependencies { ... } }

was in original Groovy build file. Since I'm very new to Gradle and know Groovy a bit better than none, I've ended up with this 😁

which gradle version are you using?

4.10.2 Linux build

ok first try this if it works

import java.util.regex.Pattern
import kotlin.reflect.jvm.internal.impl.descriptors.annotations.KotlinTarget
import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile

plugins {
    application
    kotlin("jvm") version "1.3.0"
}

val kotlin_version = "1.3.0"
val tornadofx_version = "1.7.16"
val junit_version = "5.1.0"

tasks.withType<KotlinCompile> {//compileKotlin {
    kotlinOptions.jvmTarget = "1.8"
}

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    implementation(kotlin("stdlib"))
    implementation("no.tornado:tornadofx:$tornadofx_version")

//    testCompile( "org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:$junit_version")
//    testRuntime( "org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:$junit_version")
}

val mainClassName = "com.github.valv.demo.tfx"

val jar by tasks.getting(Jar::class) {
    archiveName = "new.jar"
    //mainClassName = "com.github.valv.demo.tfx"
    manifest {
        attributes( mapOf(
                "Class-Path" to configurations.joinToString(" ") { it.name },
                "Main-Class" to mainClassName
        ))
    }
// TODO: convert to Kotlin
//    from(configurations.compile.collect { entry -> zipTree(entry) }) {
//        exclude( "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF")
//        exclude( "META-INF/*.SF")
//        exclude( "META-INF/*.DSA")
//        exclude( "META-INF/*.RSA")
//    }
}

OMG, It uses Kotlin 1.2.61, How can I configure 1.3.0?

sorry?

Yes, that trick with removing

buildscript

block and placing

plugins

ontop solved the problem

Great!!

But the Kotlin version in

gradle --version

is still 1.2.61. I hope it's not terrible

also forgot to mention use

implementation

instead of

compile

as it is more stable

Aha, I tried exactly

implementation

, but it was not resolved because of the problem above. Now it is. So for tests I should point

testImplementation

and

testRuntime

, right?

It does not matter actually.. the gradle version you are currently using is build using kotlin 1.2.61 so it is shipped with that vesion.. But if you want to use say kotlin 1.3.0 then just mention 1.3.0 in the plugins block and it will use that version of kotlin in the project

Got it, thanks

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