Package sun.text.normalizer does not exist

Seems like:

  • Oracle’s ‘javac’ doesn’t grant access to some of the internal classes in ‘rt.jar’ which aren’t meant to be used by user code.

  • This can be circumvented by explicitly adding ‘rt.jar’ to the compile class path.

To add a single file to a configuration, you can do ‘dependencies.compile files(‘path/to/file’)’ (instead of the ‘flatDir’ approach).