If I need to generate files as part of a compiler ...

# compiler

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

If I need to generate files as part of a compiler plugin (i.e. in an AnalysisHandler) where should I place those generated sources? currently I'm just using the first source file I find and creating a new directory in its directory, but obviously that's extremely error-prone. I basically just want to somehow get a hold of the build/generated/source directory I guess but in a way that also works if kotlinc was called from the command-line with my plugin. I'm seriously hoping that there is a way to do this. It seems as though what kapt does for example is to just have a hard-coded value based on the gradle project.buildDir, but I'm trying to make this work in the case that gradle is for some reason not there.

[shikasd]

You can pass the directory as a parameter to the compiler cli, and use a gradle plugin to get buildDir.

[shikasd]

I don't remember the name of the extension point atm, maybe something related to CommandLineProcessor?

[Justin Tullgren]

I have been following this guide and that is what is done, pass from gradle to the commandline processor: https://blog.bnorm.dev/writing-your-second-compiler-plugin-part-1

[ralf]

I’m doing the exact same thing here:

https://github.com/square/anvil/blob/main/compiler/src/main/java/com/squareup/anvil/compiler/AnvilCommandLineProcessor.kt#L29-L35

https://github.com/square/anvil/blob/main/gradle-plugin/src/main/java/com/squareup/anvil/plugin/AnvilPlugin.kt#L60-L63