Cannot convert URL 'com.jacob:jacob:1.17:x86@dll' to a file

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We have uploaded a DLL in our Artifactory repository, which is defined as this:

jacob_dll_x86 : 'com.jacob:jacob:1.17:x86@dll'

If I make a dependency on it, Gradle does download it from Artifactory into it’s local gradle cache. But then, when it should build a jar including it with this:

from jacob_dll_x86

it fails with this error message:

* What went wrong:
Cannot convert URL 'com.jacob:jacob:1.17:x86@dll' to a file.

Another thing that is astonishing me: we just upgrade Jacob from M2-17 to 17; so we had the dll declared before as:

jacob_dll_x86 : 'com.jacob:jacob:1.17-M2:x86@dll',

and this worked fine!

We use Gradle 2.0

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You cannot pass a dependency string to ‘jar.from’. You’ll need to pass the configuration that holds this (and possibly other) dependencies, e.g. ‘from configurations.runtime’.

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Hi Peter,

thanks for this clarification. The jar now is built as it should .

cheers,