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This is a follow up on this post. I have a small sample project in gradle involving a scala file which fails to build on my new machine (it used to work on the same hardware + debian stretch):

$ gradle build

:compileJava UP-TO-DATE
:compileScala FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem was found with the configuration of task ':compileScala'.
> No value has been specified for property 'zincClasspath'.

My build.gradle file is as follows:

version = 0.1

apply plugin: 'scala'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
  compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.11.8'
}

My current gradle version is:

$ gradle -version

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 3.2.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC
Revision:     none

Groovy:       2.4.8
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.9 compiled on March 1 2017
JVM:          1.8.0_121 (Oracle Corporation 25.121-b13)
OS:           Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 amd64

and my scala (and scalac) version is 2.11.8. and I am on debian stretch:

$ uname -a

Linux front 4.8.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.8.5-1 (2016-10-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I thought for a moment there was a missing dependency (a common source of failure) and checked to install any gradle package which may be relevant (such as libgradle-plugins-java) but this did not solve the issue.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Sven Williamson
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For me this problem disappeared by switching to newer gradle. Right now to 4.9:

gradle wrapper --gradle-version=4.9

And then use ./gradlew (or gradlew.bat) instead of gradle.

(for the record I had this problem with gradle 2.10, which is default on Ubuntu 16.04)

Andrzej Wąsowski
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