Anyone here a Nix fan & able to get Kotlin/Native linux builds working? Here is what I tried for...

# kotlin-native

[James Ward]

Anyone here a Nix fan & able to get Kotlin/Native linux builds working? Here is what I tried for my shell.nix

with import <nixpkgs> {};
mkShell {
  NIX_LD_LIBRARY_PATH = lib.makeLibraryPath [
    stdenv.cc.cc.lib
    zlib
    libclang.lib
  ];
  NIX_LD = lib.fileContents "${<http://stdenv.cc|stdenv.cc>}/nix-support/dynamic-linker";
}

[James Ward]

Running:

~/.konan/kotlin-native-prebuilt-linux-x86_64-1.8.10/bin/konanc main.kt

I get a working program.kexe but the konanc program crashes with:

# V  [libjvm.so+0x58aeca]  AccessInternal::PostRuntimeDispatch<G1BarrierSet::AccessBarrier<548964ul, G1BarrierSet>, (AccessInternal::BarrierType)0, 548964ul>::oop_access_barrier(void*, oopDesc*)+0x1a

[James Ward]

Full log

hs_err_pid221954.log

[napperley]

Do note that K/N doesn't support NixOS. K/N supports Ubuntu, Debian, and any Linux distro that uses Ubuntu or Debian as the base like Linux Mint ( https://linuxmint.com/ ) for example.

I'm assuming that NixOS uses its own base. In that case K/N compiler won't work properly, which isn't surprising considering the issues you are encountering.

[Steve Elliott]

Is it true that K/N (still) only supports linux distros based on Ubuntu or Debian? The documentation doesn't mention this: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-target-support.html#tier-1

[CLOVIS]

I'm running K/N on ArchLinux without issues. Haven't tried other distros, but I don't see why it would make a difference?

[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

I am using K/N on Arch Linux too with no practical issues. I did have some issues with linking, but when I added the --allow-shlib-undefined option, everything works perfectly.

[Edoardo Luppi]

@Panayotis Katsaloulismaybe worth opening a YT issue?

[napperley]

Some C libs require the --allow-shlib-undefined to be passed to the linker due to the way they are designed. This isn't an issue specific to Kotlin itself.

[Steve Elliott]

I am using NixOS and am seeing the same issue that @James Ward mentioned earlier. NixOS is pretty unique so it's somewhat unsurprising things aren't working as expected, but I'm curious if there's any insight into the OpenJDK segfault.