Protobuf subproject dependency not working

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I’m trying to include a gradle project that builds from protobuf files in another project. The project build.gradle looks like this:

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'com.google.protobuf'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.google.protobuf:protobuf-gradle-plugin:0.8.3'
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
    // https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.protobuf/protobuf-java
    compile group: 'com.google.protobuf', name: 'protobuf-java', version: '3.5.0'
}

And it works as I would expect, when I build I get a working .jar in the build/libs folder.

When I now declare that project as a compile dependency like this:
compile project(":protobuf")

In the setting.gradle I have the following lines:

include ':protobuf'
project(":protobuf").projectDir = "$rootDir/../protobuf" as File

I can’t use any of the classes the protoc compiler generated for me. Has anyone had this problem before or any idea what I’m doing wrong?

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So the problem here isn’t actually gradle its my IDE intellj IDEA that dosen’t understand where to find the dependencys and says its unknown, but acutally everything compiles and works.