diff --git a/build-tools/core/src/org/jetbrains/jet/buildtools/core/BytecodeCompiler.java b/build-tools/core/src/org/jetbrains/jet/buildtools/core/BytecodeCompiler.java
index 8617f13f719..0f35310a117 100644
--- a/build-tools/core/src/org/jetbrains/jet/buildtools/core/BytecodeCompiler.java
+++ b/build-tools/core/src/org/jetbrains/jet/buildtools/core/BytecodeCompiler.java
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ public class BytecodeCompiler {
 
 
     /**
-     * {@code CompileEnvironment#compileModuleScript} wrapper.
+     * {@code CompileEnvironment#compileModules} wrapper.
      *
      * @param module         compilation module file
      * @param jar            compilation destination jar
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public class BytecodeCompiler {
     public void moduleToJar ( @NotNull String module, @NotNull String jar, boolean includeRuntime, @Nullable String stdlib, @Nullable String[] classpath ) {
         try {
             CompileEnvironmentConfiguration env = env(stdlib, classpath);
-            boolean success = KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModuleScript(env, module, jar, null, includeRuntime);
+            boolean success = KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModules(env, module, jar, null, includeRuntime);
             if ( ! success ) {
                 throw new CompileEnvironmentException( errorMessage( module, false ));
             }
diff --git a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/cli/KotlinCompiler.java b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/cli/KotlinCompiler.java
index e679e3b7e20..09b5e719567 100644
--- a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/cli/KotlinCompiler.java
+++ b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/cli/KotlinCompiler.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
 import com.intellij.openapi.Disposable;
 import com.intellij.openapi.util.Disposer;
 import com.sampullara.cli.Args;
+import jet.modules.Module;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.jet.compiler.*;
 import org.jetbrains.jet.compiler.messages.CompilerMessageLocation;
@@ -152,9 +153,10 @@ public class KotlinCompiler {
 
                 boolean noErrors;
                 if (arguments.module != null) {
-                    noErrors = KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModuleScript(configuration,
-                                                                               arguments.module, arguments.jar, arguments.outputDir,
-                                                                               arguments.includeRuntime);
+                    List<Module> modules = CompileEnvironmentUtil.loadModuleScript(arguments.module, configuration.getMessageCollector());
+                    noErrors = KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModules(configuration, modules,
+                                                                          arguments.module, arguments.jar, arguments.outputDir,
+                                                                          arguments.includeRuntime);
                 }
                 else {
                     // TODO ideally we'd unify to just having a single field that supports multiple files/dirs
diff --git a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/CompileEnvironmentUtil.java b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/CompileEnvironmentUtil.java
index ca803c0549f..26541ca6554 100644
--- a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/CompileEnvironmentUtil.java
+++ b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/CompileEnvironmentUtil.java
@@ -78,10 +78,6 @@ public class CompileEnvironmentUtil {
         return null;
     }
 
-    //public static void ensureRuntime(@NotNull JetCoreEnvironment env) {
-    //    ensureJdkRuntime(env);
-    //}
-
     public static void ensureKotlinRuntime(JetCoreEnvironment env) {
         if (JavaPsiFacade.getInstance(env.getProject()).findClass("jet.JetObject", GlobalSearchScope.allScope(env.getProject())) == null) {
             // TODO: prepend
@@ -151,16 +147,7 @@ public class CompileEnvironmentUtil {
         }
     }
 
-    //private CompileEnvironment copyEnvironment(boolean verbose) {
-    //    CompileEnvironment compileEnvironment = new CompileEnvironment(messageRenderer, verbose, compilerDependencies);
-    //    compileEnvironment.setIgnoreErrors(ignoreErrors);
-    //    compileEnvironment.setErrorStream(errorStream);
-    //    // copy across any compiler plugins
-    //    compileEnvironment.getEnvironment().getCompilerPlugins().addAll(environment.getCompilerPlugins());
-    //    return compileEnvironment;
-    //}
-    //
-    public static List<Module> loadModuleScript(String moduleFile, MessageCollector messageCollector) {
+    public static List<Module> loadModuleScript(String moduleScriptFile, MessageCollector messageCollector) {
         Disposable disposable = new Disposable() {
             @Override
             public void dispose() {
@@ -170,7 +157,7 @@ public class CompileEnvironmentUtil {
         CompilerDependencies dependencies = CompilerDependencies.compilerDependenciesForProduction(CompilerSpecialMode.REGULAR);
         JetCoreEnvironment scriptEnvironment = new JetCoreEnvironment(disposable, dependencies);
         ensureRuntime(scriptEnvironment, dependencies);
-        scriptEnvironment.addSources(moduleFile);
+        scriptEnvironment.addSources(moduleScriptFile);
 
         GenerationState generationState = KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler
                 .analyzeAndGenerate(new CompileEnvironmentConfiguration(scriptEnvironment, dependencies, messageCollector), false);
@@ -178,9 +165,17 @@ public class CompileEnvironmentUtil {
             return null;
         }
 
-        List<Module> modules = runDefineModules(dependencies, moduleFile, generationState.getFactory());
+        List<Module> modules = runDefineModules(dependencies, moduleScriptFile, generationState.getFactory());
 
         Disposer.dispose(disposable);
+
+        if (modules == null) {
+            throw new CompileEnvironmentException("Module script " + moduleScriptFile + " compilation failed");
+        }
+
+        if (modules.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new CompileEnvironmentException("No modules where defined by " + moduleScriptFile);
+        }
         return modules;
     }
 
diff --git a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.java b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.java
index 324b7740a4e..8244b165dd1 100644
--- a/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.java
+++ b/compiler/cli/src/org/jetbrains/jet/compiler/KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.java
@@ -98,22 +98,15 @@ public class KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler {
         return generationState.getFactory();
     }
 
-    public static boolean compileModuleScript(
+    public static boolean compileModules(
             CompileEnvironmentConfiguration configuration,
 
+            @NotNull List<Module> modules,
+
             @NotNull String moduleScriptFile,
             @Nullable String jarPath,
             @Nullable String outputDir,
             boolean jarRuntime) {
-        List<Module> modules = CompileEnvironmentUtil.loadModuleScript(moduleScriptFile, configuration.getMessageCollector());
-
-        if (modules == null) {
-            throw new CompileEnvironmentException("Module script " + moduleScriptFile + " compilation failed");
-        }
-
-        if (modules.isEmpty()) {
-            throw new CompileEnvironmentException("No modules where defined by " + moduleScriptFile);
-        }
 
         final String directory = new File(moduleScriptFile).getParent();
         for (Module moduleBuilder : modules) {