We have created a library that is built on our CI linux machine. That library has no specific ios de...

# multiplatform

[Paul Woitaschek]

We have created a library that is built on our CI linux machine. That library has no specific ios dependencies and all the logic resides in commonMain.
Am I correct that I can't use that library at all unless I buy a mac and add an empty nativeMain source set and publish that?

[Cicero]

I believe you can get your iOS source and do the mac build into a virtual machine

[aleksey.tomin]

You can use github-actions

[Big Chungus]

You can build it on Azure DevOps. They offer some macOS hosts on free plan (that's what I'm doing) 🙂 Alternatively, hackintosh.

[Big Chungus]

Github also provides same macos hosts as azure does (microsoft and all) as @aleksey.tomin mentioned

[Big Chungus]

But in short, even if you do not have platform-specific dependencies you still must build an artifact for it on native host to make that platform available for your consumers.

[Big Chungus]

I've posted a question on this earlier today https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0922A726/p1606212655188600

[BollywoodVillain]

I can’t use that library at all unless I buy a mac and add an empty nativeMain source set and publish that

But the question remains: Can we use an empty nativeMain ?
Or alternatively can we use a prebuild macOS binary and use it to pass the tests?

[Big Chungus]

Yes, you only need to declare ios target in your build. there's no need to have actual ios sources (as the artifact will be built from your common sources)