How to properly declare a dependency on pure(no platform modules)

common-module1

jar in another

common-module2

? So far i'm getting NoClassDefFound in my 'common-module2-jvm', but IDE doesn't highlight imports as red and allows to navigate to them(

common-module1

).

common-module1

still needs platform modules even if they have no code.

How would that help? Do I need to import appropriate modules for each platform? So 'implementation "myLibrary"' in each platform module?

Yeah. so

common-module1-jvm

has an

expectedBy common-module1

and then

common-module2-jvm

has both

expectedBy common-module2

and

implementation common-module1-jvm

Sound's like oversight on Jetbrains part. Creating empty modules instead of just importing in once through common module.

The common module doesn’t know to build a Jar. The jvm module is there so it knows that’s what you want to do. Though someone from Jetbrains can speak better than I can to the design decisions around that.

So ho can my

common-module2

know about classes that are in 'common-modle1', if only my

common-module2-jvm

imports it?

common-module2

should also have a dependency on

common-module1

.

But you just said common-modules don't know how to build a jar. What should I depend on then?

You end up with a sort of doubled-up dependency tree. So

common-module2-jvm

depends on both

common-module1-jvm

and

common-module2

, and both of those have a dependency on

common-module1