I've cloned kotest, and trying to run unit tests on my Mac as follows:

./gradlew clean build

which blows up like this:

xcrun: error: unable to find utility "xcodebuild", not a developer tool or in PATH
e: Compilation failed: An error occurred during an xcrun execution. Make sure that Xcode and its command line tools are properly installed.
Failed

All I need to do is run unit tests, and I do not care about IOs at this time. I do have xcode installed, and I did search this channel and stackoverflow. What am I missing? TIA!

Try adding

jvmOnly=true

in gradle.properties. It's not documented, but it should disable all Native and Js targets. It's useful for quicker development. https://github.com/kotest/kotest/blob/c32ca997517a6f7f02302913eb6a5cd00f044c69/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/kotest-native-conventions.gradle.kts#L8

this did work - thanks a lot @Adam S