[1.12.2] (eclipse) How do I load soft and hard dependency mods? Where do I drop the .jars and do I need to write any java?

Q: Where do I drop the .jar files for soft/hard dependencies.

Q: What loads the .jar files is it Gradle or Forge or both? 

Q: Do I have to write any java to tell Forge/Gradle to load them at run time?  If so what code and where?

After googling for a while I read I needed to just drop the soft .jar mods in a folder ether "libs" in the root folder or in the /run/mods folder. But they don't load when I run/test my mod. 

Edit: i tried adding code to gradle.build to get the local files to load as dependencies but it did't work

I tried

compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

and 

compile files('libs/your-library-file-name.jar')

I thought this was suppose to be easy

"// you may put jars on which you depend on in ./libs"

I created a file in my home directory named libs and dropped my jars inside what do I need to do to get them to run with client?

NEVER MIND! I figured it out after watching 

Edited September 12, 20196 yr by StoneHammers