Should the value of `kotlin.native.enableDependenc...

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[louiscad]

Should the value of kotlin.native.enableDependencyPropagation really be false, or is that a mistake, and I should set it to true to enable platform-dependent libraries in shared source sets?

Screenshot taken from Kotlin 1.4-M2 blog post (https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/06/kotlin-1-4-m2-released)

[dsavvinov]

It should be false. That actually an internal flag, which changes internal algorithm providing support of platform-dependent libraries in shared source-sets.

Actually that’s a tri-state boolean:
• absence of this flag = no platform-dependent libs in shared source-sets
• true = heuristics-based algorithm (it’s simple from implementation POV but imprecise, so we’ve never announced it I think)
• false = automatic building of common API by intersecting platform-specific APIs
Yeah, naming and values are a little bit weird, but if everything goes well, we will flip the default for the final release and there will be no need in changing it explicitly.

[louiscad]

Alright, thanks for clarification!