Hey guys! Quick question about working on the JetB...

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[jdemeulenaere]

Hey guys! Quick question about working on the JetBrains/kotlin repo. I ran a child Android Studio with "bunch switch . as32 && ./gradlew runIde", but I feel that my android project is not using the kotlin compiler that I just compiled.. How can I check if it is using it or not ? Thanks a lot 🙂

[dsavvinov]

If your build is delegated to gradle, it will use compiler set by build.gradle-file (and by default, build.gradle will be created with some latest stable version, like 1.2.51)

To use just-compiled compiler (we call them "SNAPSHOT"), you need to actually take that compiler from some repository -- e.g., local maven repository. Something like ./gradlew dist install publish should build artifacts from sources and publish them in local maven repository under 1.2-SNAPSHOT version, on which you can depend later.

[jdemeulenaere]

Cool, I'll try that, thanks! Is there any way to configure something to use the just compiled compiler after running ./gradlew runIde ? I think this is what is done for the Kotlin IDEA plugin (which correctly shows @snapshot@ as version)

[dsavvinov]

No, there's no such way.
Probably the very best that can be done here is to somehow force debug-IDEA to generate build.gradle already with 1.2-SNAPSHOT version of Kotlin in it. But nobody have been bothered enough yet to do it 🙂 (probably, because for debugging compiler in Gradle, you'll still have to go extra mile with attaching debugger to Gradle Compiler Daemon)

[jdemeulenaere]

Unfortunately it still doesn't work. Everything in my gradle file is using the version 1.2-SNAPSHOT (that is in my local .m2 repository) : in the build script (kotlin gradle plugin) and in the dependencies (stdlib). However I don't know if there is a way of specifying the compiler used by gradle in the DSL ?

[jdemeulenaere]

When I go to preferences > Kotlin Compiler it says that my project overrides the default. However in Project Structure > Module > app, I don't see anything about the compiler

[jdemeulenaere]

And there is no checkbox "Delegate build to gradle" in Android Studio that I can uncheck (the one that we have in IDEA)