And to go along with this. Is there any way to apply the application plugin together with the kotlin multiplatform plugin?

I just did that and seems to work:

plugins {
    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.multiplatform" version "$kotlin_version"
    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.serialization" version "$kotlin_version"
}

apply plugin: 'kotlinx-serialization'
apply plugin: 'application'

Just create custom Jar and JvmExec tasks and add your runtime classpaths. For Jar also configure main class in manifest. Goohle around on that and let me know if you still cannot figure it out

@Big Chungus do you have any sample?

I do, will post it tomorrow once i get to my pc

Perfect thank you

@fkrauthan, there you go:

afterEvaluate {
  tasks {
    val compileKotlinJvm by getting(org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile::class)
    val jvmProcessResources by getting(Copy::class)
    val jvmRun by creating(JavaExec::class) {
      dependsOn(compileKotlinJvm, jvmProcessResources)
      group = "run"
      main = "lt.petuska.IndexKt"
      classpath = configurations["jvmRuntimeClasspath"] + compileKotlinJvm.outputs.files +
          jvmProcessResources.outputs.files
      workingDir = buildDir
    }
    val jvmJar by getting(Jar::class) {
      manifest {
        attributes["Main-Class"] = jvmRun.main
        attributes["Version"] = project.version
      }
    }
  }
}

Cool that works :)

I add this at the end of the build.gradle ?

Yeah. In addition to that I personally added

args = System.getProperty("exec.args", "").split(" ")

To the jvmRun command. This way I can use

-Dexec.args=""

to pass along command line arguments (not perfect but will do for some testing in my case)

Thanks, I’ll test these out later

Just do

./gradlew jvmRun

What I need is to use that jar file from another app. I’m creating a

protoc

plugin… I did manage to manualy change the

.sh

file generated from the gradle application plugin. Fingers crossed 🤞 kotlin multiplatform and application plugins will be working in the future

Why not just have another jvmRun task like the one in my example that extends the classpath with the classpath of child project?

I need to have something self contained. That why the jar file.