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I'm trying the new k2 compiler with the 2.0 beta version. Trying to compile a .kt file with an stdlib call and it is asking for kotlin-home. Should it be asking for that when I'm using the compiler-embeddable dependency? Adding kotlin-home it works perfectly though

<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/compiler-reference.html#kotlin-home-path>

As tl;dr I'm using embeddable compiler to compile a file with `println("Hello")` and it is failing to find stdlib

yes, it should ask as we are not bundling `kotlin-stdlib` inside embeddable compiler

though it is weird that only with 2.0-Beta version you started to see this

Is there a way to not need this, or have this home in the classpath or something?

I'm doing it from inside a kotlin application

```val arguments = K2JVMCompilerArguments().apply {
            freeArgs = listFilesToCompile(project, target).map { it.absolutePath }
            classpath = project.classPath(target)
            kotlinHome = "/path/to/kotlin"
            destination = project.folder.resolve("build").resolve(target.name.lowercase()).absolutePathString()
            disableDefaultScriptingPlugin = true
        }
val code = compiler.exec(PrintingMessageCollector(System.out, MessageRenderer.PLAIN_FULL_PATHS, true), Services.EMPTY, arguments)```

KGP always adds `-no-stdlib` and `-no-reflect` compiler options. And passes actual stdlib via classpath

Actually that makes more sense, will do that!

I am curious - what is your use-case for invoking such way Kotlin compiler?

I'm playing around a custom build system with a twist on dependency management

Nothing serious at the moment, but I think gradle has become way too complicated and maven is way too verbose