How to add Guava lib to runtime classpath in Intellij idea - intellij-idea

Question

I am trying to make use of Guava in an Intellij Gradle project and although my code compiles, at runtime I am seeing this >
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/collect/Ordering
I have read a number of posts suggesting that the Guava lib is not on the classpath at runtime. I have verified this by writing the classpath out using System.getProperty("java.class.path") and the Guava lib is not there.
I have tried (as others have suggested) to add either the folder or the lib itself as a Module dependency with scope = compile. See image >
Intellij Module Dependencies
This also has not worked.
Here are the libs used in the project >
Project Libs
Any advice on what is going on here gratefully accepted.
My build.gradle >
group 'EE'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
apply plugin: 'java'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
}
It contains no reference to the guava lib I added to the Project Libraries:: com.google.guava:guava:18.02
Looks like I have missed an important step somewhere.

Answer 1

Per official documentation from Guava.
https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/UseGuavaInYourBuild
Add the line below to your build.gradle file dependencies section:
dependencies {
compile group: 'com.google.guava',
name: 'guava',
version: '23.5-jre' # or 23.5-android for the Android flavor
}