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Can anyone help me? I’m on a Macbook so I end up using z-shell but the problem still occurs when I use bash. I’m trying to run Kotlin/Native using the command-line compiler but I get an error saying kotlin-native command cannot be found. I’ve installed the compiler but still get the error.

Can you please post exactly the command you are running and the error you are getting?

```kotlinc-native hello.kt -o hello```
I’m following this page:  <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-command-line-compiler.html#write-hello-kotlin-native-program|Write "Hello Kotlin/Native" program>

The error I’m getting is `zsh: command not found: kotlinc-native`

This is my kotlin version: `Kotlin version 1.6.10-release-923 (JRE 16.0.2+7)`

&gt; Install the compiler by unpacking its archive to a directory of your choice and adding the path to its `/bin` directory to the `PATH` environment variable.
The error message suggests you didn’t do this correctly

you can check your path by doing `echo $PATH`.
 `which kotlinc-native` should show the path where you put the compiler

it that all one command? `echo $PATH which kotlinc-native` ?

Two different commands. `echo $PATH` shows your current PATH env, on which there should be one path to the bin-folder for `kotlinc-native`

This is my result: `/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin`

`/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin` Should I use nano and add this to my /etc/paths?

add `export PATH=$PATH:/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin`  to the file `/Users/roshad/.zshrc` and restart your terminal and it should be good

when you type commands in your terminal, it will scan every directory defined in the PATH variable for an executable matching what you wrote  (`kotlinc-native` in this case, is a file which you added in `/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin` )

Okay done, but when I downloaded the compiler kotlinc-native is not there

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This is what the path looks like now `/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin:/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlinc/bin`

yeah, you’re right.. seems the native compilers are not part of `kotlin-compiler-$Version.zip` .. try downloading the `kotlin-native-macos`  appropriate for your machine (aarch64 for M1 macbooks, x86_64 otherwise) instead

Okay done. Do I do the same as before but with the path of the bin folder of kotlin-native?

This is the new command I’m trying `export PATH=$PATH:/Users/roshad/Kotlin/kotlin-native/bin`

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I’ve also renamed `kotlin-native-macos-aarch64-1.6.10` to `kotlin-native` in my Kotlin folder.