Could not find method compile for arguments Gradle

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Looked around for this solution for much too long now  and I m not sure if I missed it or just misstyped something  but my Gradle script will not compile  I am migrating to Gradle  and am very new with it  I am very used to using Maven for dependency management  but Gradle seems best me for now  From running this snippet of code   dependencies     compile group   org bukkit   name   bukkit   version   1 7 9-R0 1-SNAPSHOT    compile  io ibj MattLib 1 1-SNAPSHOT         exclude group   de bananaco      exclude  net milkbowl vault 1 2 27        compile group   net citizensnpcs   name   citizens   version   2 0 12    compile group   com sk89q   name   worldedit   version   5 6 1    compile group   com sk89q   name   worldguard   version   5 9    compile group   net milkbowl   name   vault   version   1 2 12    compile fileTree dir   libs   includes      jar        NOTE  I do have the java  maven  nexus  shadow  and rebel plugins applied   When I run my Gradle task  I encounter this error    Could not find method compile   for arguments   io ibj MattLib 1 1-SNAPSHOT   build 1b5iofu9r9krp7o8mme0dqo9l  run closure2 closure8 66fb45e5  on root project  project    If I remove the  MattLib  dependency from my project and reinsert it as  compile  io ibj MattLib 1 1-SNAPSHOT    The script completes  but I have dependency issues  I read up here   dependencies     compile  org gradle test excludes api 1 0         exclude module   shared           From Chapter 50 From the Gradle Manual  http   www gradle org docs current userguide dependency management html    that what I have SHOULD work  but I am confused why it doesn t   gradle --version output   Groovy        1 8 6 Ant           Apache Ant TM  version 1 9 3 compiled on December 23 2013 Ivy           2 2 0 JVM           1 8 0 05  Oracle Corporation 25 5-b02  OS            Windows 7 6 1 amd64   Any thoughts

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compile is a configuration that is usually introduced by a plugin  most likely the java plugin  Have a look at the gradle userguide for details about configurations  For now adding the java plugin on top of your build script should do the trick   apply plugin  java

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Make sure that you are editing the correct build gradle file  I received this error when editing android build gradle rather than android app build gradle

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Hope Below steps will help  Add the dependency to your project-level build gradle   classpath  com google gms google-services 3 0 0    Add the plugin to your app-level build gradle   apply plugin   com google gms google-services    app-level build gradle   dependencies           compile  com google android gms play-services-auth 9 8 0

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In my case  all the compile statements has somehow arranged in a single line  separating them in individual lines has fixed the issue

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It should be exclude module   net milkbowl vault 1 2 27  add module   as explained in documentation for DependencyHandler linked from http   www gradle org docs current javadoc org gradle api Project html dependencies groovy lang Closure  because ModuleDependency exclude java util Map  method is used

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In my case I had to remove some files that were created by gradle at some point in my study to make things work  So  cleaning up after messing up and then it ran fine      If you experienced this issue in a git project  do git status and remove the unrevisioned files   For me elasticsearch had a problem with plugins analysis-icu    Gradle Version          5 1 1

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Wrong gradle file  The right one is build gradle in your  app  folder

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Just for the record  I accidentally enabled Offline work under Preferences -  Build Execution Deployment -  Gradle -  uncheck Offline Work  but the error message was misleading

[java] Could not find method compile() for arguments Gradle

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