Trying to add Applied Energistics api through build.gradle - gradle

Question

I am starting on a minecraft mod, but I cannot get the build.gradle right.
I wanted to create a mod on top of applied energistics but I cannot get it to build when I add this mod as a gradle dependency. I looked all the dependencies up on an other repository, but when I build it gives errors like below, and some other errors on the general minecraft code base
Error:(3, 26) java: package net.minecraft.init does not exist
This is the code I have right now:
buildscript {
repositories {
jcenter()
maven { url = "http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven" }
}
dependencies {
classpath 'net.minecraftforge.gradle:ForgeGradle:2.3-SNAPSHOT'
}
}
apply plugin: 'net.minecraftforge.gradle.forge'
//Only edit below this line, the above code adds and enables the necessary things for Forge to be setup.
version = mod_version + "-" + mod_channel
group = mod_group
archivesBaseName = mod_basename
sourceCompatibility = targetCompatibility = '1.8' // Need this here so eclipse task generates correctly.
compileJava {
sourceCompatibility = targetCompatibility = '1.8'
}
minecraft {
version = minecraft_version + "-" + forge_version
replaceIn "package-info.java"
replace "#version#", project.version
replace "#modversion#", mod_version
replace "#modchannel#", mod_channel
// used when launching minecraft in dev env
mappings = mcp_mappings
}
repositories {
maven {
name 'Mobius Repo'
url "http://mobiusstrip.eu/maven"
}
maven {
name = "JEI repo"
url "http://dvs1.progwml6.com/files/maven"
}
}
dependencies {
// installable runtime dependencies
compileOnly "mcp.mobius.waila:Hwyla:${hwyla_version}"
// compile against provided APIs
compileOnly "mezz.jei:jei_${minecraft_version}:${jei_version}:api"
compileOnly "mcp.mobius.waila:Hwyla:${hwyla_version}"
// at runtime, use the full JEI jar
runtime "mezz.jei:jei_${minecraft_version}:${jei_version}"
deobfCompile "appeng:appliedenergistics2:${ae_verion}"
}
processResources {
// this will ensure that this task is redone when the versions change.
inputs.property "version", project.version
inputs.property "mcversion", project.minecraft.version
// replace stuff in mcmod.info, nothing else
from(sourceSets.main.resources.srcDirs) {
include 'mcmod.info'
// replace version and mcversion
expand 'version':project.version, 'mcversion':project.minecraft.version
}
// copy everything else except the mcmod.info
from(sourceSets.main.resources.srcDirs) {
exclude 'mcmod.info'
}
}
The version that I am trying to add is:
ae_verion=rv5-stable-8

Answer 1

You need to add 'api' at the end of the compile argument (used to be 'dev'). Also, iirc adding transitive=false solves dependency issues.
dependencies {
compile ("appeng:appliedenergistics2:${ae_version}:api") {
transitive = false
}
}