Could not get unknown property 'build' for root project

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I am getting following error migrating gradle project from 5.5 to 8.5

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'buildNetworkShared'.
> Could not get unknown property 'build' for root project 'buildNetworkShared' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: Could not get unknown property 'build' for root project 'NetworkShared' of type org.gradle.api.Project.
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.getMissingProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:85)
        at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript$ScriptDynamicObject.getMissingProperty(BasicScript.java:160)
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.getProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:62)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultDynamicLookupRoutine.property(DefaultDynamicLookupRoutine.java:31)
        at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.getProperty(BasicScript.java:69)
        at build_57wn2y7wraqqtt67jyettd6ss.run(D:\GIT\Java17\NetworkShared\build.gradle:77)
        at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:91)
        ... 164 more

build.gradle contains

defaultTasks 'build'
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

task buildNetworkShared ( dependsOn: [ 'getDependencies', 'Java:installanywhere:CustomCode:build' ] ) doLast {
	runMsBuild('ReBuild', vsSlnFile)
	runMsBuild64('ReBuild', vsSlnFile)
}

build.dependsOn buildNetqosShared

build.mustRunAfter(getDependencies)
build.mustRunAfter(setDebugMode)
build.mustRunAfter(setReleaseMode)
..

How to resolve with syntax change or deprecated features? Appreciate your help!

3

There is no syntax change.

Before,
you applied the maven plugin
which in turn applied the base plugin
which in turn applied the lifecycle-base plugin
which added the build task.

Now,
you apply the maven-publish plugin
which in turn only applies the publishing plugin.

So you simply no longer apply a plugin that adds the task you try to configure.

4

Thanks, things are working fine after removing plugin.

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