gradle build failure for groovy project on dependence

Question

New to groovy, and I had one groovy project@commit 2f54b59 like below

├── build.gradle
└── src
    └── main
        └── groovy
            ├── check.groovy
            └── helpers
                └── Person.groovy

And the check.groovy is simple:

import helpers.*
println "hello"
person = new Person()

I try to use build.gradle to manage the project with sourceSets

sourceSets {
    main {
        groovy {
            srcDirs('.')
            include '*.groovy'
        }
    }
}

and meet error when build:

$ gradle build
:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:compileGroovy
startup failed:
gradle-sample/src/main/check.groovy: 5: unable to resolve class Person
 @ line 5, column 10.
   person = new Person()
            ^

1 error
:compileGroovy FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

If u run the groovy command directly, it works fine

$ cd src/main/groovy
$ groovy check.groovy
hello

How to setup the configuration to make it work?

Answer 1

There's no need to configure any source sets - gradle will handle it itself.

See a little demo here.

apply plugin: 'groovy'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.11'
}