diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/InstrumentJava.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/InstrumentJava.kt
index 9688a5598c8..874b8708d71 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/InstrumentJava.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/InstrumentJava.kt
@@ -1,49 +1,56 @@
 import org.gradle.api.Action
 import org.gradle.api.Task
 import org.gradle.api.artifacts.Configuration
-import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection
-import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.compile.JavaCompile
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.provideDelegate
 import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.withGroovyBuilder
+import java.io.File
 
 /*
  * Copyright 2010-2021 JetBrains s.r.o. and Kotlin Programming Language contributors.
  * Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license that can be found in the license/LICENSE.txt file.
  */
 
-class InstrumentJava(@Transient val javaInstrumentator: Configuration, @Transient val sourceSet: SourceSet) : Action<Task> {
+class InstrumentJava(@Transient val javaInstrumentator: Configuration) : Action<Task> {
     private val instrumentatorClasspath: String by lazy {
         javaInstrumentator.asPath
     }
 
-    private val srcDirs: FileCollection by lazy {
-        sourceSet.allJava.sourceDirectories
-    }
-
     override fun execute(task: Task) {
         require(task is JavaCompile) { "$task is not of type JavaCompile!" }
-        task.doLast {
-            val anySrcDir = srcDirs.filter { it.exists() }.firstOrNull()
-            if (anySrcDir != null) {
-                task.ant.withGroovyBuilder {
-                    "taskdef"(
-                        "name" to "instrumentIdeaExtensions",
-                        "classpath" to instrumentatorClasspath,
-                        "loaderref" to "java2.loader",
-                        "classname" to "com.intellij.ant.InstrumentIdeaExtensions"
-                    )
-                }
 
-                task.ant.withGroovyBuilder {
-                    "instrumentIdeaExtensions"(
-                        "srcdir" to anySrcDir, // No code should actually be compiled because of areJavaClassesCompiled==true in Javac2 - so any src folder will do.
-                        "destdir" to task.destinationDirectory.asFile.get(),
-                        "classpath" to task.classpath.asPath,
-                        "includeantruntime" to false,
-                        "instrumentNotNull" to true
-                    )
-                }
+        // There is a requirement for Javac.execute() to have an existen non-empty directory as a source dir for the compilation
+        // even if compilation is disabled.
+        //
+        // So we create an empty dummy directory during the execution.
+        //
+        // See:
+        // Javac.execute() - https://github.com/apache/ant/blob/9943641/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javac.java#L1086
+        // InstrumentIdeaExtensions - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/9c40bdd/java/compiler/javac2/src/com/intellij/ant/InstrumentIdeaExtensions.java
+        // Javac2.compile() - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/9c40bdd/java/compiler/javac2/src/com/intellij/ant/Javac2.java#L237
+        val dummyInstrumentSrcDir = File(task.project.buildDir, "instrument_dummy_src")
+        val dummyInstrumentSrcRelativePath = dummyInstrumentSrcDir.relativeTo(task.project.projectDir).path.replace("\\", "/")
+
+        task.doLast {
+            task.ant.withGroovyBuilder {
+                "taskdef"(
+                    "name" to "instrumentIdeaExtensions",
+                    "classpath" to instrumentatorClasspath,
+                    "loaderref" to "java2.loader",
+                    "classname" to "com.intellij.ant.InstrumentIdeaExtensions"
+                )
+            }
+
+            dummyInstrumentSrcDir.mkdirs()
+
+            task.ant.withGroovyBuilder {
+                "instrumentIdeaExtensions"(
+                    "srcdir" to dummyInstrumentSrcRelativePath,
+                    "destdir" to task.destinationDirectory.asFile.get(),
+                    "classpath" to task.classpath.asPath,
+                    "includeantruntime" to false,
+                    "instrumentNotNull" to true
+                )
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/gradle/javaInstrumentation.gradle.kts b/gradle/javaInstrumentation.gradle.kts
index a3e872d964c..8232afda8dd 100644
--- a/gradle/javaInstrumentation.gradle.kts
+++ b/gradle/javaInstrumentation.gradle.kts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ fun Project.configureJavaInstrumentation() {
             javaInstrumentator("com.jetbrains.intellij.java:java-compiler-ant-tasks:${rootProject.extra["versions.intellijSdk"]}")
         }
         for (sourceSet in listOf(mainSourceSet, testSourceSet)) {
-            tasks.named(sourceSet.compileJavaTaskName, InstrumentJava(javaInstrumentator, sourceSet))
+            tasks.named(sourceSet.compileJavaTaskName, InstrumentJava(javaInstrumentator))
         }
     }
 }