https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79547137/gradle-8-with-scala-2-12-and-zinc

build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'scala'
    id 'application'
}

group = 'org.example'
version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
}

application {
    mainClass = 'com.example.SMain'
}

scala {
    scalaVersion = '2.12.15'
    zincVersion = '1.10.8'
}

zinc ("com.typesafe.zinc:zinc:1.10.8"){
    exclude( group: "org.scala-lang", module: "scala-library")
}
zinc "org.scala-lang:scala-library"
zinc "org.scala-lang:scala-compiler"

log

dmytro@...:~/projects/gradledemo2$ ./gradlew clean

[Incubating] Problems report is available at: file:///home/dmytro/projects/gradledemo2/build/reports/problems/problems-report.html

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/dmytro/projects/gradledemo2/build.gradle' line: 38

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'gradledemo2'.
> Could not find method zinc() for arguments [com.typesafe.zinc:zinc:1.10.8, build_dt3puwu0sshz7vh6jzfd9v1qb$_run_closure5@2364ee23] on root project 'gradledemo2' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0.

You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins.

For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.13/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation.

BUILD FAILED in 467ms