> kotlinc -script .\p2.kts
error: invalid argument: -script
info: use -help for more information

Anyone know why this is happening? I'm on Windows and installed Kotlinc through the zip on the releases page, and when I run

kotlinc -version

it outputs

> kotlinc -version
info: kotlinc-native 1.3.60 (JRE 9.0.1+11)
Kotlin/Native: 1.3.60

-script is not listed in the options specified in -help.

Hmm, looks like you're hitting the native compiler, and not the JVM compiler. I see this, and

-script

is an option.

info: kotlinc-jvm 1.3.61 (JRE 1.8.0_222-b10)

Ah, I see, I installed the native package from the repo. Found the normal one though, which does indeed include kotlinc-jvm so hopefully that works now. Thanks!

kotlinc-jvm

compiles down to JVM byte code,

kotlinc-native

compiles down to native machine code. (Or I guess to LLVM bit code which LLVM compiles to machine code, I'm not 100% sure on that one. Either way it ends up as native machine code that doesn't need any *VM to run.)

Oh I see, thank you!