How to properly declare a dependency on pure(no pl...

# multiplatform

[hmole]

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).

[russhwolf]

common-module1 still needs platform modules even if they have no code.

[hmole]

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

[russhwolf]

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

[hmole]

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

[russhwolf]

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.

[hmole]

So ho can my common-module2 know about classes that are in 'common-modle1', if only my common-module2-jvm imports it?

[russhwolf]

common-module2 should also have a dependency on common-module1.

[hmole]

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

[russhwolf]

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