Hi, I'm having an issue building a release build &...

# android

[Fredrik Larsen]

Hi, I'm having an issue building a release build

More than one file was found with OS independent path 'META-INF/core-ktx_release.kotlin_module'

Yes, I have a module named core-ktx and I'm guessing some other library has the same? I know you can exclude or pickFirst under packagingOptions, but I'm afraid that that will break something. As far as I know the kotlin_module is actually used by kotlin for various tasks.

What is the proper solution here? I can rename the module, but this issue is bound to happen again. I find it peculiar that FQN is not used for this, but it's a bit over my head.

[ribesg]

I still have no problem using this in my app:

packagingOptions {
        exclude("META-INF/*.kotlin_module")
    }

[ribesg]

I heard that the kotlin_module file can be used by reflection, but that’s it. It’s something that should be packaged with libraries (aar) but not applications, unless you know that you need it. So my strategy is to just exclude everything and I’ll think about it when (if) I encounter an error

[Fredrik Larsen]

Interesting. I figured it would be a problem with reflection for modules as well. I'll try your approach. Thanks

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Also, the reflection problem should be fixed in 1.3.40 AFAIU: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-30344