Hello everyone and <@U0CHHN4F4>!! I have a case wh...

# scripting

[gianluz]

Hello everyone and @ilya.chernikov!! I have a case where i need to see working a .main.kts script with a compiled jar runtime locally inside IntelliJ and in CI.
More in specific:
• i have a project where i compile a module with this jar that is going into: build/libs/myJar.jar
• then i have a MyScript.main.kts where i use the library:

@file:DependsOn("./build/libs/test-jar-main-kts-0.1.jar")

import com.test.jar.TestJar

print(TestJar.iAmTestJar())

If i run the script from IntelliJ works but the script gives an error : File build/libs/myJar.jar not found and i cannot benefit the autocomplete.
By using the /absolute/path/to/myJar.jar it works well in IntelliJ with autocomplete and locally in general, but the path will be different whiles running on CI or another machine.

Is there a way to have this working well both locally and on CI/other machine just using relative paths?

Alternatively, how i can contribute to fix that? attached a screenshot

[ilya.chernikov]

I understand the problem, but do not see an easy solution.
The fundamental issue is that there is no a directory that could be considered a common base between a script in open in IDE and being run anywhere else. So, to solve this generically we will need some sort of env vars and/or special dirs expansion the same way it is usually implemented e.g. in unix shells. Although you can add such a mechanism into your own script definition, we are not ready to provide some generic enough one for the standard scripts. (Or at least I cannot think of a good solution now that wouldn't require significant investigations and design.)

So, I can think of the following workarounds:
- Use your own base directory with an absolute path, and put it to the @file:Repository annotation for simplicity
- Use maven(ivy) resolver, and put your jar to the maven/ivy local cache (e.g. for the .main.kts` scripts, which uses ivy, the ~/.ivy2/cache directory is usually used as a cache.)
- Implement your own customized script definition, e.g. taking https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-script-examples/tree/master/jvm/simple-main-kts as a base, and add there a logic for the base directory settings.