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I'm trying to use the same Kotlin/JS code in two environments, one of which has access to the "chrome.scripting" namespace and one in which "chrome.scripting" is undefined. I made an external declaration in a file with `@file:JsQualifier("chrome.scripting")` and an `external fun executeScript(...)` method, and it works fine when the namespace exists. However, if it's undefined, the generated JS fails to load even if I never actually try calling the method, since the code tries to declare a variable equal to "chrome.scripting.executeScript", which breaks. Is there a way to make such an external declaration where it does not attempt to initialize this variable unless/until the method is actually called?

Not that I know of.  A potential (rather convoluted) workaround would be to use the file-per-module JS generation, and only load the module with the external declaration if you have access to `chrome.scripting`.  But that requires manual loading, and I'm not sure how messy it would get

shame, since I can just do `js("chrome.scripting.executeScript(...)")`  and that works fine