Can anyone help me? I’m on a Macbook so I end up using z-shell but the problem still occurs when I u...

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[Roshad Guerrier]

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.

[edrd]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

kotlinc-native hello.kt -o hello

I’m following this page: 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)

[Emil Kantis]

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

[Emil Kantis]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Emil Kantis]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Emil Kantis]

and where did you install the compiler?

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Emil Kantis]

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

[Emil Kantis]

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 )

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Emil Kantis]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Emil Kantis]

try and see

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

I’m getting this error

[Roshad Guerrier]

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

[Roshad Guerrier]

This is my kotlin-native folder