can I develope a compose desktop app using the `kotlin("jvm")` gradle plugin instead of `kotlin("mul...

# compose-desktop

[andylamax]

can I develope a compose desktop app using the kotlin("jvm") gradle plugin instead of kotlin("multiplatform") gradle plugin??

[Landry Norris]

Yes, but it won’t be able to share with Android/web from my understanding.

[andylamax]

Thats okay. I am not trying to share ui here

[Landry Norris]

In that case, it should work fine.

[Arkadii Ivanov]

You may have issues with the IDE not being able to resolve some MPP dependencies, I remember there were bugs. Otherwise it should work fine.

[benkuly]

I just stumbled over those IDE issues today^^

[Sean Proctor]

IntelliJ seems to work quite well for for a JVM-only compose app. For my multiplatform app I needed AGP 7.3 for something and IntelliJ doesn't support it. AS Flamingo is the only IDE that properly resolves dependencies for my that.

[alexey.tsvetkov]

You may have issues with the IDE not being able to resolve some MPP dependencies, I remember there were bugs. Otherwise it should work fine.

At some point the kotlin-jvm Gradle plugin was refactored to share most of code with the kotlin-multiplatform plugin, so for the most part kotlin-jvm and kotlin-multiplatform with jvm only target should be interchangable (besides using different names for compile tasks). There could be bugs of course, but bugs can be reported to Kotlin team.

[andylamax]

@alexey.tsvetkov is the same fot kotlin-js true??? As it does it use most of kotlin-multiplatform code??

[alexey.tsvetkov]

I’m less sure about kotlin-js, but I believe it should at least share the logic for dependency resolution. So all multiplatform dependencies should be consumable by kotlin-jvm & kotlin-js projects. Also, I’m not sure we support kotlin-js projects in the Compose plugin

[andylamax]

that answers my question. Thanks