diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 0f17c815e0f0f63f0f5daf8655d81dd0d7870453..aff844835b7e96d8e9d19c8bb13b9266054f6ad2 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -3,3 +3,10 @@ filegroup(
     srcs = ["gradle-2.14.1-bin.zip"],
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
+
+# gradle-api jar, as generated by gradle when using the gradleApi() magic dependency.
+java_import(
+    name = "gradle-api.jar",
+    jars = ["gradle-api-2.14.1.jar"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+)
diff --git a/gradle-api-2.14.1.jar b/gradle-api-2.14.1.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a365aa49fc9006ef299d2e2cb3d357771a5e0123
Binary files /dev/null and b/gradle-api-2.14.1.jar differ