Issues with the latest log4j2 core libraries

Question

Due to the log4j1 security issues, we're upgrading to the latest log4j2 libraries (2.17.0 in our case). We add the following to our 'gradle.build' dependency segment compile 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.17.0' run the script, all is well. Now I add compile 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.17.0' run the script, doesn't compile and I get Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

The libraries are pulled in from 'mavenCentral'

So, I've also tried to pull the libraries in from the local file system like this

compile files('libs/log4j-api-2.17.0.jar') compile files('libs/log4j-core-2.17.0.jar')

but still get the 'heap' error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.