anyone tried to use the kotlin ant task? it uses t...

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[nfrankel]

anyone tried to use the kotlin ant task?
it uses the KotlinAntTaskUtil.kt file under the cover
which checks for the existence of files, not classes on the classpath
1. i’ve to rename files and lose versions, i can live with that
2. i cannot use the embeddable compiler, and run into classpath issues regarding conflicting guava versions
ok, this is very specific
still, hints appreciated

[nfrankel]

@yole any hint? 😬

[udalov]

What is the exact problem you're facing? Are you trying to run the Kotlin Ant task without Ant?

[nfrankel]

i’m trying to run the ant task
i need some JAR, including the kotlin-compiler.jar
first issue, i need to remove the version from the JAR name, because the aforementioned class checks for the exact file name
plus, i have google guava on class path
the compiler also has guava inside, which create compatibility issues
the solution is to use the kotlin-embedddable-compiler.jar
but that’s not possible because the file name is checked again and it doesn’t work...

[udalov]

As far as I see, KotlinAntTaskUtil loads the Kotlin compiler in an isolated class loader, so there shouldn't be compatibility issues. Please report this at kotl.in/issue, preferably with the relevant code from your build.xml.
Meanwhile, I guess you can rename kotlin-compiler-embeddable-{...}.jar to kotlin-compiler.jar to make it work in your case

[nfrankel]

that’s what i ended up doing 🙂
thanks for the assist