Hi guys, I am trying to uses #*Kotbase* with KMP a...

# multiplatform

[Fabio Beoni]

Hi guys, I am trying to uses #*Kotbase* with KMP and running a desktop app...

I get the following error:

libLiteCore.so: libicuuc.so.71: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

while opening the DB:

Database("notes-db", DatabaseConfigurationFactory.newConfig("/home/me"))

In the docs you can read (https://kotbase.dev/databases/#create-or-open-database):

val database = Database(
    "my-db",
    DatabaseConfigurationFactory.newConfig(
        "path/to/database"
    )
)

// "path/to/database" might be a platform-specific location. Use expect/actual or dependency injection to provide a platform-specific database path.

[Pablichjenkov]

I strongly advise opening an issue in the repo

[Jeff Lockhart]

Hi, Fabio. On Linux the libicu library is required. I mention this in the docs here and on the readme, but the requirement is more than just for development on the library so I should probably highlight it somewhere else in the readme. It's a requirement for either the native Linux or the JVM target running on Linux. So I should probably also mention that in the JVM section as well.

[Jeff Lockhart]

Couchbase Lite requires a specific version of libicu. The error message indicates it requires v71 for the current 3.0 version, which may or may not be available from the package manager for the Linux distribution you're using. You may find it on a previous version of your distribution's package manager archive, or you can download it directly from GitHub.

[Fabio Beoni]

Okay thanks so much... I read about the libs required under linux but I did not get the link with this error since it was mentioning "No such file or Dir" making me think to some error in the path...

Many thanks.

[Jeff Lockhart]

Yeah, the error is a bit cryptic in that sense, especially in the context of creating a database file. Essentially it can't find the libicu dependency shared object .so file.

[Jeff Lockhart]

Let me know if these docs changes make things clearer.