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is it possible to publish MPP artefact with no sources? My use-case is a "marker" artefact that declares dependencies on all library modules to make it easy to get them all via transitive dependencies.

I think the Kotlin Native compiler gets mad if there's nothing in any source dirs but you can get away with a single empty file

That's what I'm doing at the moment, however that still results with a class being generated for JVM

You can put it in nativeMain or alike instead of commonMain

but then ~jvm~ kotlin jvm compiler complains

The only thing I'm interested in from that artefact is gradle module file and pom.xml

It's weird, I have no issues making artifacts grouping dependencies in Splitties, and I'm using the KMP Gradle plugin

Hmm, something might've changed then. Last I tried it was on kotlin 1.3 tbh. Let me give it a go with 1.5.30 :D

No dice, klib is not being generated if there are no sources

```&gt; java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\mpetuska\IdeaProjects\template-kmp-library\build\classes\kotlin\androidNativeArm32\main\klib\template-kmp-library.klib (No such file or directory)```

Worth a <http://kotl.in/issue|kotl.in/issue> report IMO, because this is a use case that you'll not be the only one to encounter

Do you have any native targets in your project?

Yep, but the grouping artifacts currently target Android only, so that's most likely why I don't encounter the issue.

I think the Kotlin/Native part rests on wrong assumptions, so an issue report would be helpful to have these removed.

I think you'll not get the issue if you publish the grouping for JVM only, or Android only. I don't know for JS(IR) and JS legacy.

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-47345>
Although this behaviour seems to have been implemented intentionally.