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Hey everyone,

I'm facing an issue where IntelliJ IDEA fails to properly resolve macOS dependencies when publishing Kotlin/Native artifacts separately for `linuxX64` and `macosArm64`.

Due to technical limitations in my project, I must publish separate artifacts per target variant, which is likely why this issue hasn't been widely noticed before. On macOS, the publishing process generates an *extra `-metadata.jar` file* that is completely empty except for the `META-INF` directory. This file *breaks dependency resolution in IntelliJ*.

I've reported the issue <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-74880/Empty-metadata.jar-File-Breaks-IntelliJ-IDEA-Resolution-on-macOS-for-Kotlin-Native-Multiplatform-Artifacts|here>

Has anyone encountered this before? Does anyone know a workaround to prevent this empty metadata JAR from being generated? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.