Okay.. I'm stupid, and apparently don't know how t...

# multiplatform

[geatmo]

Okay.. I'm stupid, and apparently don't know how to google for this, so I'll just ask you guys, if you don't mind.
I'm trying to follow this tutorial for Kotlin/MPP: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/native/mpp-ios-android.html
I am on a Windows machine, and I know that I won't be able to compile the iOS portion of this on this machine, but I also cannot resolve the platform.UIKit.UIDevice package that's used in the iosMain actual.kt file. So are those packages also not accessible for me from a Windows machine?

[Hauke Radtki]

I use AndroidStudio and it's the same for me here. I think there is no IDE support for the iOS part, at least for windows. Couldn't test it on a Mac yet though

[geatmo]

cool, good to know I'm not alone at least! 🙂

[Hauke Radtki]

Additionally this makes sense because all the Apple Framework libraries aren't even installed on your windows machine

[Hauke Radtki]

No you are not alone, MPP is giving me a hard time, too 😄

[geatmo]

yeah, that's what I figured, too.. I thought maybe there'd be some kind of intermediate interfaces created by MPP 🙂

[Hauke Radtki]

That would be helpful, but as far as I understand, these interfaces are generated automatically from the actual libraries

[josephivie]

You might be able to add a if (org.gradle.internal.os.OperatingSystem.current().isMacOsX()) { ... } around the parts in the Gradle file that reference iOS. I'm not exactly sure how the demo project is structured, but that works for my development and libraries.

[Sabrina Namur]

I used this tutorial and the IDE marks the package "platform" red but it still works fine on a Mac. So when its just red and have the error "unsolved reference: platform", but the code compile it should work.
(I work mainly on a windows machine, but I can run it also on a Mac)

[olonho]

there's IDE support for iOS frameworks, but only on macOS hosts

[geatmo]

thanks @olonho, that's what I thought.. will try this out on my colleagues mac on Monday