Gradle Absolute / Relative Path

I have the following problem. When I want to use a local jar in my Gradle dependencies. If I just add: compile files('libs/PushLinkAndroid-5.3.0.jar') It doesn't work. C:\Users\

Solution 1:

Try this, it would include all JARs in the local repository, so you wouldn't have to specify it every time:

dependencies {
   compilefileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}

Also, you should know that when referencing a file via

files("relative/path/to/a.jar")

path is evaluated relative to the buildscript this snippet is in. So when your build.gradle file is located in /a/project/build.gradle, then the jar should be in /a/project/relative/path/to/a.jar. In a multiproject gradle build you can put the the jar in a folder relative to the root - project and reference it in all subprojects via

rootProject.files("relative/to/root/a.jar")

So take this to account and re-check if your gradle settings are correct.

Solution 2:

If you call URL scheme path, you can use this example:

def path = "file://${projectDir}/ojdbc6.jar"

Solution 3:

Old question, but might help someone. I had the same problem, I had 2 libraries in the project root folder, and it didn't work with relative path. Add ../ before the relative path if your library is in your project's root folder.

implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
...
implementation files('../library_name/libs/some.jar')

Solution 4:

First off in my opinion adding manual libs - if can be avoided - is bad practice because you need to maintain the lib and path yourself.

I had a quick look at the maven repo and it seems they don't have this specific lib there. This is what I'd expect:

compile('com.anypackage.name.PushLinkAndroid-5.3.0.jar')

Since this is probably not up to you than rather to the developer team of https://www.pushlink.com/changelog.xhtml it can't be helped.

Now to your problem: Did you start your build with --stacktrace?

From what I can gather from this

compile files('C:/Users/Kai/AndroidStudioProjects/ProjectA/libs/PushLinkAndroid-5.3.0.jar')

you're using a Windows system. This is troublesome at some points because Gradle expect the paths to look like this:

C:/Users/Kai/AndroidStudioProjects/ProjectA/libs/PushLinkAndroid-5.3.0.jar

My wild guess here is that gradle does something like this when you don't specify the path yourself:

C:\Users\Kai\AndroidStudioProjects\ProjectA\libs/PushLinkAndroid-5.3.0.jar

You can verify the behaviour with this gradle task:

task printBuildDir() {
    defbuildDir="${buildDir}"
    println buildDir
    deffixedDir= buildDir.replaceAll('\\\\', '/')
    println fixedDir
}

If my guess is correct, you got a couple of choices:

1. Use the full path
2. Use a gradle builtin path such as buildDir and replace the \ accordingly to the example (I'm not sure whether this works exactly like my example in dependencies tag, maybe you need to define a global variable yourself)
3. Get the developers of PushLink to put this lib up to Maven Repo

Solution 5:

Your libs folder is misplaced. You have to put it under MigraeneBook/app , not directly under MigraeneBook.