Hey I currently have this giant codeblock to define my apple kotlin targets: ```val appleMain by cre...

# multiplatform

[Jan]

Hey I currently have this giant codeblock to define my apple kotlin targets:

val appleMain by creating {
    dependsOn(commonMain)
}
val appleTest by creating {
    dependsOn(commonTest)
}
val iosMain by getting {
    dependsOn(appleMain)
}
val macosMain by creating {
    dependsOn(appleMain)
}
val macosX64Main by getting {
    dependsOn(macosMain)
}
val macosArm64Main by getting {
    dependsOn(macosMain)
}
val iosSimulatorArm64Main by getting {
    dependsOn(iosMain)
}
val iosSimulatorArm64Test by getting {
    dependsOn(appleTest)
}

However, I have 5 different modules at which it gets really hard to maintain all of them. Can I somehow make an extension function to automatically do this, what the code from above is doing? (prob more of a gradle question)

[Jeff Lockhart]

You will appreciate the new targetHierarchy API: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-hierarchy.html

[Jeff Lockhart]

You can also move the logic to a convention plugin to apply to multiple modules.

[ephemient]

example of 1: https://github.com/joreilly/Confetti/blob/main/shared/build.gradle.kts

[ephemient]

example of 2: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatform/blob/master/examples/todoapp/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/multiplatform-setup.gradle.kts

[ephemient]

of course you can do targetHierarchy.default in a convention plugin too

[Jan]

great, thanks!

[ephemient]

as https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew1820.html#new-approach-to-source-set-hierarchy says, if you have any feedback on the feature, they'd like to hear about it