Is there a way to access `buildSrc` declarations within your app module?

# gradle

[xxfast]

Is there a way to access buildSrc declarations within your app module?

[Vampire]

Can you elaborate what you mean? Which declarations where and used where exactly?

[xxfast]

sure - for example, i have a Configurations.kt in buildSrc where i define a global version for my app and i wish to reference this within my :app module. I know you can do this by declaring new configFields in build configs like

android {
  defaultConfig {
    buildConfigField("String", "VERSION", "\"${Configurations.App.Version}\"")
  }
}

But this is limiting as this is only doable in an android project, whereas my setup is a multiplatform project.

[Vampire]

So you want to access it at runtime in the production code?

[xxfast]

yeah

[Vampire]

You can for example use a WriteProperties task to create a properties file with the values you want and then read it at runtime.

[Vampire]

Or you can have a template resource file with placeholders, that you still via configuration of processResources task

[xxfast]

hmm, how would you load said .properties to each of the modules?

[Vampire]

What do you mean?

[Vampire]

If you need it in multiple modules, have one common that has the file and maybe a class to interpret it that you then can use from the other modules

[xxfast]

I see, I will post my solution here once i figure it out. thanks for the direction @Vampire.

[xxfast]

Found a gradle plugin that lets me do this quite elegantly in a kotlin multi-platform setup.