hi guys, i've been trying to run a `maxosX64` target project on my apple silicon mac, and everything...

# kotlin-native

[William Reed]

hi guys, i've been trying to run a maxosX64 target project on my apple silicon mac, and everything with the build goes fine, but the run task keeps getting skipped.

> Task :app:compileKotlinMacosX64 UP-TO-DATE
> Task :app:linkDebugExecutableMacosX64 UP-TO-DATE
> Task :app:runDebugExecutableMacosX64 SKIPPED

any ideas? I've tried on multiple projects and running a clean build. kotlin 1.6.10

running with ./gradlew runDebugExecutableMacosX64

[rnett]

Probably because Kotlin/Native has configured the run tasks to automatically be skipped on unsupported platforms. I would think Rosetta would let it be ran, so that may be unintentional, but IDK. Does it work with macosArm64?

[Landry Norris]

Just out of curiosity, what happens if you add ‘arch -x86_64 ’ before your gradle command?

[Landry Norris]

I wouldn’t be surprised if the plugin saw it wasn’t on Arm64 and decided that there’s no way to run X86. I looked through the plugin source code at one point, and noticed that there’s a lot of layers of abstraction. It may not be trivial for them to add in an exception for Rosetta.

[William Reed]

yeah i was expecting rosetta to take care of it, so I am confused. I wanted to just switch it to macosArm64 but a multiplatform library i am depending on doesn't seem to support that yet (issue already open)

[William Reed]

@Landry Norris could you clarify on the full command? doesn't -x exclude a task?

[Landry Norris]

Mac OS has an arch command. Running arch -x86_64 {some terminal command} runs the command in Rosetta

[William Reed]

ohh let me try

[William Reed]

neat

[William Reed]

still is getting skipped 😞

[Landry Norris]

arch -x86_64 ./gradlew runDebugExecuteableMacosX64

[William Reed]

yeah that's what i tried

[William Reed]

Skipping task ':runDebugExecutableMacosX64' as task onlyIf is false. not sure where the source code for that would be, but probably like you guys said with a platform check

[Landry Norris]

I don't know what else to try.

[russhwolf]

you might be able to override it with something like tasks["runDebugExecutableMacosX64"].setOnlyIf { true }

[William Reed]

doesn't seem to change anything, thanks though

[russhwolf]

make sure you do setOnlyIf {} and not onlyIf {} because the first (in theory) should replace existing filters while the second appends

[russhwolf]

but maybe there's other filters also happening 🤷

[russhwolf]

I've never actually tried this

[William Reed]

i added your snippet exactly at the end of my build.gradle

[russhwolf]

do you get the same output Skipping task ':runDebugExecutableMacosX64' as task onlyIf is false.?

[William Reed]

yeah 😞

[russhwolf]

ok then I've got nothing, sorry

[William Reed]

thanks for the try 🙂

[russhwolf]

You might want to open a youtrack ticket for this use-case

[Artyom Degtyarev [JB]]

Hello, @William Reed! Have you tried to run executable from Terminal? It should be located somewhere at /build/bin/macosX64/debugExecutable/...

[William Reed]

ahhh that works, thank you! @Artyom Degtyarev [JB]

[Artyom Degtyarev [JB]]

😊
Anyway, the fact that you were unable to run it by Gradle task seems strange. Maybe you could file an issue at kotl.in/issue with a project and your environment info? This would really help us figuring out the root cause.

[William Reed]

Yup that's on my TODO list for today