Greetings! I'm seeking some assistance from people who have a somewhat deep understanding of the connection between Gradle's version and the Kotlin version, which is used to execute

*.gradle.kts

scripts. My environment is as such: • Gradle wrapper is used (

distributionUrl=https\:<//services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-bin.zip>

) • Gradle Kotlin DSL is used • Multimodule Android project • Included builds are used:

settings.gradle.kts

file has this code written:

pluginManagement {
    includeBuild("./build-src")
    <REST_OF_THE_SETUP>

• The

build-src

project is also multimodule and has the following structure:

build-src/
  |
  |-- module1 folder
  | |-- src folder
  | \-- build.gradle.kts file
  |
  |-- module2 folder
  | |-- src folder
  | \-- build.gradle.kts file
  |
  |-- module3 folder
  | |-- src folder
  | \-- build.gradle.kts file
  |
  |-- build.gradle.kts file      //        <<<<<--------   attention here, please! Read below...
  \-- settings.gradle.kts file

• root

build.gradle.kts

file in included build project has nothing but some code like

// first line of build-src/build.gradle.kts file


import org.gradle.api.Project


// define fun to run below:
private fun myCodeToRunDuringGradleSyncWhatever(project: Project) {
  // here goes some code, that does stuff to properly set up our big project - it's implementation does not matter
}


// run this function:
myCodeToRunDuringGradleSyncWhatever(getProject())

With this setup in mind, I can now describe the issue: running the

./gradlew

command in root project dir gives me a very strange error -

build-src/build.gradle.kts:5:1: Modifier 'private' is not applicable to 'local function'

pointing to me the definition of my

myCodeToRunDuringGradleSyncWhatever

fun. NOTE: a significant detail is that if I change the Gradle wrapper's version to use to 8.5 - the problem is gone. But now I need to create a branch with a backport to run under Gradle 7.5 and this is a problem. Let's say I remove all those

private

modifiers from all my `fun`'s in this file. It then starts to give me even more strange compilation issues, pointing to various Kotlin standard methods in my

myCodeToRunDuringGradleSyncWhatever

fun (like

String.uppercase()

). I am sure I'm missing something in the environment setup here, but what?