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 🙂

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.

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)

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)

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 ?