2nd question of the day I know I can use ktor as a client for Android and iOS but what about other native platforms Maybe have an interface `Api` in `common` an implementation of it based on Ktor in `mobileCommon` and something else for windows

2nd question of the day I know I can use ktor as a client fo kotlinlang #multiplatform

# multiplatform

11/29/2018, 5:16 PM

2nd question of the day... I know I can use ktor as a client for Android and iOS, but what about other native platforms? Maybe have an interface

Api

common

, an implementation of it based on Ktor in

mobileCommon

and something else for windows?

11/29/2018, 5:18 PM

What kind of windows are you talking about? Is it windows phone?

11/29/2018, 5:20 PM

I'm just writing some code to check how far can I get with sharing code between all the support platforms

11/29/2018, 5:21 PM

We are working on curl backend that probably should work on windows as well

But for now windows is not supported yet

11/29/2018, 5:22 PM

11/29/2018, 5:23 PM

the underlying libraries should already work on windows except several particular features

for example, there is no windows event queue integration so you should write your own coroutine dispatcher and so on

11/29/2018, 5:24 PM

but the http client part is probably better off implemented with specific windows tools then, correct?

11/29/2018, 5:25 PM

Yes, but curl backend covers a lot of platforms

also Windows is not high priority platform

11/29/2018, 5:25 PM

I can imagine why

11/29/2018, 5:25 PM

we can't implement everything at once

11/29/2018, 5:26 PM

this is really just a proof of concept, might be better to target a different platform

11/29/2018, 5:38 PM

On Windows libcurl in samples currently works, but only on developers computer, not distributable: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/pull/2348

11/29/2018, 5:41 PM

awesome, I really just need it running on my machine