Hi :wave:. Please help here. I have two KMP projects, P1 and P2, where P2 -> P1. P1 purely has Ko...

# kotlin-native

[ankur2037]

Hi 👋. Please help here.
I have two KMP projects, P1 and P2, where P2 -> P1.
P1 purely has Kotlin code and doesn't have any platform-specific code.
P2 does have Android and iOS-specific code and is also consuming P1. P1 is using a Maven repository for publishing artifacts.
I was planning to use a Linux-based machine for CI-CD publishing of P1 and a Mac-based machine for P2 for further consumption.
While testing the above setup, I am getting an error where P2 is not able to resolve iOS-specific artifacts from P1.
I understand that my Linux-based machine will not be publishing iOS-specific artifacts, but I am not able to understand why iOS-based artifacts from P1 are required by P2 given that P1 doesn't have any platform-specific code.

[jw]

There is no such thing as common or platform-agnostic code in the current setup of how Kotlin compiles code. As such, each library must compile source to each supported target.

[ankur2037]

Thanks for clarifying that.
So there is no other way than to use a Mac-based machine instead of a Linux-based one to publish artifacts for all our internal KMP projects from CI-CD?

[jw]

Yes, unfortunately.

[Jan Skrasek]

Do you know if there is a plan to change this?

[jw]

Certainly nothing near-term as it's a fairly fundamental change in behavior both from the perspective of the library publishing but also library consuming.

[jw]

Here's the tracking issue https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52666