[gradle] Can't build `single-large-project`

Running `gradle build` fails terribly:

```
$ gradle build

Welcome to Gradle 8.10.2!

Here are the highlights of this release:
- Support for Java 23
- Faster configuration cache
- Better configuration cache reports

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/8.10.2/release-notes.html

To honour the JVM settings for this build a single-use Daemon process will be forked. For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.10.2/userguide/gradle_daemon.html#sec:disabling_the_daemon in the Gradle documentation.
Daemon will be stopped at the end of the build

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/wojtek/dev/tmps/performance-comparisons/single-large-project/build.gradle' line: 16

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'single-large-project'.
> Could not find method compile() for arguments [commons-lang:commons-lang:2.5] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

* 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.

BUILD FAILED in 3s
```

(granted the build finishes quickly ;) )