Project dependencies not possible in Gradle Plugin development

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Hallo,

I created a multi module project

tools
|-> common-utils (applies plugin ‘java-library’ and contains groovy classes)
|-> myPlugin (applies ‘java-gradle-plugin’ and depends on common-utils)

Obviously the dependency of common-utils in myPlugin I wanted to add as project dependency.
But during compilation of myPlugin the classes from common-utils are not visible (“unable to resolve class”).

If I publish common-utils to my local .m2 and add it as artifact dependencies in myPlugin everything works fine.

What do I miss?

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There is a documented limitation when using the java-library plugin in combination with the groovy plugin.
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_library_plugin.html#sec:java_library_known_issues