Fresh project downloaded from the wizard doesn't "run" from the sidebar in IntelliJ. It shows as run...

# compose-desktop

[rob42]

Fresh project downloaded from the wizard doesn't "run" from the sidebar in IntelliJ. It shows as runnable, but the menu says "Nothing here"

If I manually run the :composeApp:desktopRun task, it fails with No main class specified and classpath is not an executable jar.

Manually running :composeApp:run does appear to work, but it's the hardest to find in the gradle panel.

Any ideas what's going on? I worry that these kinds of issues will turn off people trying out compose desktop for the first time.

[Jeff Lockhart]

run is the Gradle task to run a JVM executable, which is what Compose Desktop is.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

“play” from the gutter should work too

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Which project template did you download?

[rob42]

@Alexander Maryanovsky I generated a template from https://kmp.jetbrains.com/ with Android and Desktop checked.

[rob42]

I generated a second template project with identical setttings and opened it later and it... worked. Both the gutter "run" and composeAppdesktopRun

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

Strange. Maybe you didn’t wait for the gradle sync to finish the first time?

[rob42]

Here's the one that still won't run

kotlin2.zip

[rob42]

Gradle is definitely fully synced. This initial project I generated still won't run from the gutter. It's strange.