# Can't add dependencies to the project
**URL:** https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307
**Category:** Old Forum Archive
**Created:** [June 7, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307 "2014-06-07T19:51:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@XanderMax](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/XanderMax)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307/1 "2014-06-07T19:51:00Z")
Hello everyone) I’am just newbie to Gradle, and I’ve faced a problem when adding dependencies to my java project. I need to add WEKA and Guava libraries to my project. Both are available in the Maven Central Repository. Here is my gradle script code (the content of build.gradle)
```gradle
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
runtime group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version: '17.0'
runtime group: 'nz.ac.waikato.cms.weka', name: 'weka-stable', version: '3.6.6'
}
```
When I’am running
```gradle
gradle build
```
from CMD, I’am getting a lot of error messages, inferring that neither of those libraries were added to project. Surely the build fails. I don’t know what to do. Thanks in advance)
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307/2 "2014-06-08T04:00:00Z")
You need to make them ‘compile’ dependencies.
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### Author:  [@XanderMax](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/XanderMax)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307/3 "2014-06-08T06:20:00Z")
Thank You for reply)) But in the gradle book it says that
```gradle
runtime
```
task depends on the
```gradle
compile
```
one. Can You please tell me what is special about
```gradle
runtime
```
, that makes my build script fail.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307/4 "2014-06-08T06:23:00Z")
The fact that ‘runtime’ extends from ‘compile’ means that every compile dependency is also a runtime dependency. The inverse isn’t true, hence if you only make these ‘runtime’ dependencies yet reference them from your Java code, compilation will fail.
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### Author:  [@XanderMax](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/XanderMax)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2014, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/cant-add-dependencies-to-the-project/6307/5 "2014-06-08T12:59:00Z")
Thank you very much))