At the time, if you added a pod in the Kotlin cocoapods plugin config, you couldn’t run

./gradlew build

because the Kotlin gradle plugin couldn’t handle it. I’m not sure if that is still true.

The reason I am asking is that when I build a project I get error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: /var/folders/z3/gtgsk6493gz1yqt86nzbgnyh0000gn/T/17166564073649352201.m:1:9: fatal error: could not build module 'SQLCipher'

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':xxx:cinteropSQLCipherIosX64'.

Project is deprecated and don’t have resources to get up to date. I remember, before starting to work on the project, you had to setup something with xcode+developer tools+pod but cannot remember what exactly. Article you wrote mention an extra step you must execute before building a project but it is little bit vague.