Migration of the `serial` library to Gradle (#1106) #102

Job	Run time
Test Processing	4m 39s
(windows/x64) Create Processing Build	10m 0s
(linux/x64) Create Processing Build	10m 7s
(linux/aarch64) Create Processing Build	9m 15s
(macos/aarch64) Create Processing Build	6m 35s
(macos/x64) Create Processing Build	13m 21s
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