Suppose we have a project where we use Lombok annotations. To use it we must change the compiler configuration for our project and enable annotation processing. We can find this in the Preferences or Settings window under Build, Execution, Deployment | Compiler | Annotation Processors. Here we have a checkbox Enable annotation processing that we must check to use the annotations from IntelliJ IDEA. We can automate this setting with some configuration in our Gradle build file.

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