Hi everyone, I tried to use `<http://kotlin.io|kotlin.io>.path.createTempDirectory()` to create tem...

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[enshahar]

Hi everyone,

I tried to use <http://kotlin.io|kotlin.io>.path.createTempDirectory() to create temporary directory on my kotlinc 1.4.31 but failed on Windows, WSL2 and Mac. In the Kotlin playground web,  the code raises `SecurityException`(which is correct) but all my systems (including kotlinc and intelliJ IDEA) cannot resolve the package kotlin.io.path . Is there anything I need to do to use the kotlin.io.path package?

[ephemient]

are you targeting jvm 8? (should be the default now, https://kotlinlang.org/docs/whatsnew15.html#new-default-jvm-target-1-8 but checking just in case)

[enshahar]

I'm using JVM 16. Anyway, I found the reason. The extensions are available in the kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 module. So I need to put the jar file to the classpath or add the dependency to kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 or `kotlin-stdlib-jdk8`(which transitively depends on the kotlin-stdlib-jdk7).

[ephemient]

the jdk used to compile does not have to match the compilation target jvm

[ephemient]

Kotlin plugin should be automatically adding stdlib-jdk7/-jdk8 based on the target, so it still sounds like something is going wrong with your setup. any public repro?