I'm thinking of building a native cli app and I'm ...

# kotlin-native

[hugo]

I'm thinking of building a native cli app and I'm following the docs that say to clone https://github.com/Kotlin/kmp-native-wizard as a starter project. This doesn't use the kmp template that I'm used to with commonMain etc and I'm wondering if I can change to a structure that does? That would also give me the ability to run the app on the jvm if I don't want to compile it down to native code for some reason.

[jw]

You could rename the nativeMain dir to commonMain and it would work the same

[jw]

In general, though, I would not recommend how that project is setup

[hugo]

yeah I guess I'm basically looking for a setup that adds a compile to native target

[hugo]

The docs don't really make it very clear? Or they just don't want you to do it 😬

[jw]

Here's a pretty basic one: https://github.com/JakeWharton/video-swatch/blob/trunk/build.gradle

[hugo]

Thanks! That makes sense

[jw]

for jvm you just toss jvm(). you'll want more native targets. i only did my mac because it requires ffmpeg and i was too lazy to set that up for other targets.

[hugo]

I think I can get away with using multiplatform deps, I just want a single (small) binary. Or smallish

[hugo]

Works like charm, thanks again

[jw]

There's a new DSL for packaging JVM apps that's nice, too: https://github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic/blob/trunk/samples/counter/build.gradle#L25-L31