The example for Gradle 5 does NOT seem to work with Gradle 5. From the release notes: Release notes Gradle 5 states: Gradle will no longer automatically apply annotation processors that are on the compile classpath — use CompileOptions.annotationProcessorPath instead.
Specifically the "options.compilerArgs = [
'-Amapstruct.suppressGeneratorTimestamp=true" part.

See also my post on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56170222/migrating-from-gradle-4-to-5-how-to-get-mapstruct-1-20-final-working-with-it