What's difference between `jvmMain` vs `desktopMai...

# compose-desktop

[Swapnil Musale]

What's difference between jvmMain vs desktopMain ?

[Swapnil Musale]

As you're also library owner, I wanted to ask you one question, I'm planning add support for desktop platform for one of my Kotlin Multiplatform Library.

So should I go with jvm("desktop") or add separate mingwX64(), linuxX64(), macosX64() to support all desktop platforms ?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

no difference. it is just a source set name

[Swapnil Musale]

@Konstantin Tskhovrebov Can you help me with above query ?

[Konstantin Tskhovrebov]

jvm is jvm, native is native
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform-dsl-reference.html#targets

[Swapnil Musale]

Thanks

[mohamed rejeb]

If your library is pure Kotlin without compose, you can add both JVM and native targets, but if it's a Compose library you can only add jvm target for desktop (and macos but it's experimental)

[Swapnil Musale]

Thanks @mohamed rejeb

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

I think jvm is common to android and desktop

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

At least it is in the androidx projects, I’m not sure how much of that is just how we’ve configured it

[mohamed rejeb]

That's the case for modules that doesn't have the android library gradle plugin.
But when you have the android library gradle plugin applied, android and jvm become two different things since android will have access to android specific APIs.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Typo in my message now fixed. Android should have access to jvmMain as well