Kotlin-DSL: Creating custom Source Set

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Hello,

i am a litte bit lost. I use gradle 5.5.1 with the kotlin-dsl and develop kotlin apps for the jvm.

I want to setup a source code organisation like the following, for my projects:

src/main/              <- implementation
src/test/                <- tests
src/testSupport/  <- test infrastructure

I want that every project has its testsupport, which contains Junit5 Extensions, Mock-Classes, Custom Asserts etc pp. testSupport can see the classes from main and test can see classes from testSupport and main

I have the following attempt:

val testSupportSourceSet = sourceSets.create("testSupport") {
        compileClasspath = project.files("src/testSupport/")
        runtimeClasspath = project.files("src/testSupport/")
    }

val testSupportImplementation by configurations.getting {
    extendsFrom(configurations.implementation.get())
    extendsFrom(configurations.testImplementation.get())
}

dependencies {
    applyDependencies()
    testImplementation(testSupportSourceSet.output)
    testSupportImplementation(sourceSets["main"].output)
}

val testSupportJar by tasks.registering(Jar::class) {
    from(testSupportSourceSet.allJava)
}

artifacts {
    archives(testSupportJar)
}

This works fine in IntellJ. However, when I execute the tests via ./gradlew test in the testSupport-Source-Set literally no dependency is resolved. Every import failed:

Unresolved reference: kotlin
Unresolved reference: ImmutableSet

and so one.

I also usually have a multi-project setup and I declared the testSupport dependency like so:

testImplementation(project(":subproject", configuration = "testSupportImplementation"))

Again: This works fine in IntelliJ, but in gradle I got:

 Selected configuration 'testSupportImplementation' on 'project :myProject' but it can't be used as a project dependency because it isn't intended for consumption by other components

Can somebody give me some hints in the right direction?

Thank you