Java-library to consumer cpp-library

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Hello!

I like to achieve the following in my project:

I have to sub-projects (modules):

Both projects work fine in isolation when pointing the consumer in a hard-coded way to the build directories etc.

However, I’m really struggling in setting up the dependencies properly getting the producer build properly triggered when the consumer gets built. I went through a lot of documentation and some hints on stackoverflow but non of the solutions looked like I have assumed they should be.

In may naïve way of thinking I though it should be enough for the consumer to say something like

dependencies {
   compile project(“:producer”)
}

In its build.gradle file. But this does not do its job: I would have expected to get the :producer:build task to get triggered, which it does not.
Furthermore, in the consumer I would need to know the path to the shared library (because the Gradle JavaCpp needs to know it).
I really would appreciate any ideas how to approach my problem. As a reference I append my current two build.gradle files below:

Kr
-Thomas

Producer (cpp-library):

plugins {
    id 'cpp-library'
}

library {
    baseName = "mylib"
    source.from file('src/main/cpp')
    privateHeaders.from file('src/main/cpp')
    publicHeaders.from file('src/main/include')
    linkage = [Linkage.SHARED]
    targetMachines = [
            machines.windows.x86_64
    ]
}

tasks.withType(CppCompile).configureEach {
    macros.put("DLL_BUILD", "1")
}

Consumer:

plugins {
    id 'java-library-convention'
    id 'common-dependencies'
    id 'org.bytedeco.gradle-javacpp-build' version "1.5.5"
}

dependencies {

    project(":producer")
    // also tried: project(path: ":producer", configuration: 'sharedLibrary')

    platformClassifier.each { platform ->
        api "org.bytedeco:javacpp:${javaCppVersion}"
    }
}

ext {
    javacppPlatform = "windows-x86_64"
}

tasks.withType(org.bytedeco.gradle.javacpp.BuildTask) {
    includePath = ["$projectDir/../producer/src/main/include"]
    linkPath = ["$projectDir/../producer/build/lib/main/mylib/shared"]
}

javacppBuildCommand {
    // building of the native part is done by the producer project
    // Hence, it is left empty intentionally.
}

javacppBuildParser {
    // this is the java classes which define the JNI interface generation
    classOrPackageNames = ['org.some.library.presets.*']
}

javacppBuildCompiler {
    copyLibs = true
}