Gradle cannot find dependency

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I am new to Gradle and am trying to setup a proof of concept build for my company to see if we want to use Gradle for our build system.

I am trying to grab a JAR file from my machine in a directory. I have set this up to use Maven. The project in question called Common was not a Maven project originally just an eclipse project. I added a pom.xml to the JAR directory so Maven can recognize it. (potential problem #1). I have installed Maven. Im my build.gradle I check the file location to ensure that it was correct. Gradle seems to just go past the JAR file.

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'maven'
  sourceCompatibility = 1.7
version = '1.0'
  group = 'com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne.oms'
//project properties
project.ext{
    repo="C:\Users\J29682\OMS_repo"
}
assert project.repo == 'C:\Users\J29682\OMS_repo' //check file path on my machine
repositories {
      maven{
        url "$project.repo"
        //layout 'maven'
      }
    flatDir{
        dirs "$project.repo"
    }
    //mavenCentral()
}
  dependencies {
         compile group: 'com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne', name:'common', version: '1.0'
    compile group: 'au.com.bytecode', name: 'opencsv', version: '2.4'
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
}

Output:

UILD FAILED
  Total time: 0.427 secs
Could not find com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne:common:1.0.
Searched in the following locations:
    file:/C:/Users/J29682/OMS_repo/com/ngc/as/fl/melbourne/common/1.0/common-1.0.pom
    file:/C:/Users/J29682/OMS_repo/com/ngc/as/fl/melbourne/common/1.0/common-1.0.jar
    file:/C:/Users/J29682/OMS_repo/common-1.0.jar
    file:/C:/Users/J29682/OMS_repo/common.jar
Required by:
    com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne.oms:ProductManager:1.0
12:54:34 PM: External task execution finished 'build'.

pom.xml from common project

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
   http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne</groupId>
   <artifactId>common</artifactId>
   <version>1.0</version>
   <dependencies>
   <dependencies>
   <repositories>
      <repository>
         <id>OMS_repo</id>
         <url>C:\Users\J29682\maven_local_repository</url>
      </repository>
   </repositories>
</project>

repo folder structure on machine: com.ngc.as.fl.melbourne

common

1.0

common-1.0.jar

pom.xml

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I don’t know why Gradle fails although it lists what it was looking for, and there seems to be a match.

But I recommend to never use Windows backslashes in Java processed configuration files; always use the slash (under Java, this will always be correct).