I have created a small test repository to be able ...

# arrow-meta

[Joachim Ansorg]

I have created a small test repository to be able to work on arrow-meta. But I can't solve a few build issues. The repo is at https://github.com/jansorg/arrow-meta-test. I assume that it's missing arrow-annotations and added the dependency I could find. But it's not yet working properly.
Does anyone know a solution to this? (cc @Rachel)
Errors:

> Task :compileKotlin FAILED
e: /IslandWork/source/arrow-test/src/main/kotlin/arrow/Person.kt: (6, 12): Unresolved reference: synthetic
e: /IslandWork/source/arrow-test/src/main/kotlin/arrow/Person.kt: (10, 8): Unresolved reference: synthetic
e: /IslandWork/source/arrow-test/src/main/kotlin/arrow/Person.kt: (14, 12): Unresolved reference: synthetic

[Rachel]

Right @Joachim Ansorg, that errors come from a missing arrow-annotations:

[Rachel]

compileOnly "io.arrow-kt:arrow-annotations:0.10.3"

[Rachel]

I'm going to check out your repository in case I can help you with other issues

[Joachim Ansorg]

thanks, I had 0.10.0-SNAPSHOT, which was apparently missing synthetic. I pushed the change to my repo

[Imran/Malic]

Yes the arrow-synthetic annotation is missing there is an PR for that https://github.com/arrow-kt/arrow-meta/pull/115

[Rachel]

@Imran/Malic, I think it's already in arrow-annotations

[Imran/Malic]

Oh, but then we need to change it to AnnotationRetention.SOURCE and not AnnotationRetention.RUNTIME. If you want I can create the PR and you’ll review it, no.

[Imran/Malic]

I cant say confidently why RUNTIME works in the TestEnvironment, but I had similar issues running the compiler when I tried integrating it to arrow turning the AnnotationRetention to SOURCE solved that issue.

[Imran/Malic]

But their might be also another solution for this if we want arrow.synthetic to stay a RUNTIME annotation.

[Imran/Malic]

@Joachim Ansorg did it work when you added AnnotationRetention.SOURCE ?

[Joachim Ansorg]

I was using this in a module outside of arrow-meta. I switched to the dependency posted by Rachel and that worked.
As far as I can tell the current IDE implementation needs the annotation at runtime, SOURCE wouldn't be enough

[Joachim Ansorg]

This may change when I have some results for my current task, but it's too early to tell

[Imran/Malic]

Perfect, 🙂 thanks @Rachel