<https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/kapt/p1488853942000442> Yes, it’s a compiler plugin, and it ...

# kapt

[yan]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/kapt/p1488853942000442

Yes, it’s a compiler plugin, and it can be potentially used with any build system. The Gradle plugin just provides the task that sets the required compiler plugin options.

[kage]

yan: Do you mean its similar to com.sun.source.util.Plugin ? https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jdk/api/javac/tree/com/sun/source/util/Plugin.html

[yan]

@kage That’s the javac API. Kotlin also has a plugin API, though it’s not public.

[kage]

Can you point us to how to use this api? We want to be able to use kapt with the kotlin-compiler-embeddable.jar

[colljos]

can we use org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.Kapt3CommandLineProcessor to configure IntelliJ to perform the Annotation processing (without using Gradle)?

[colljos]

(I cannot even see it checked into the repo: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/1.0.7/plugins/kapt3/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kapt3)