I'm reading this documentation on how to create a dynamic library with Kotlin, but it's not clear to...

# kotlin-native

[loke]

I'm reading this documentation on how to create a dynamic library with Kotlin, but it's not clear to me if it's possible to use the generated library from Kotlin itself, rather than from C. I want to build a dynamic library, written in Kotlin, that can be loaded on demand using dlopen. To be precise, I have a very large root library, let's call it A, and I then have a module B which links A and provides a normal endpoint (in practice, A is a language interpreter and B is the user interface code). What I want to do is to write a library C, which also links with A (but does not include it) which can dynamically be loaded from C when needed. Is this possible?

C is a library that provides some extra functionality, and I can't include it in B since it in turn depends on some libraries that might not be available on the target system.

[ephemient]

no. Kotlin/Native uses a closed-world compilation model - all the Kotlin code is assumed to be present in the same compilation

[ephemient]

you can use cinterop between your dynamic library and the program which loads it, regardless of whether each is written in Kotlin or anything else that can interop with C

[ephemient]

but a shared Kotlin library will exist in separate copies

[loke]

@ephemient Thanks a lot for the information, and sorry for not replying with my appreciation earlier.

[loke]

In my case, cinterop will be a bit of a hassle, since I would have to create a bridge between the two separate worlds. What I needed was a way to share kotlin objects between the main code and the library.