Hi, I’m trying to write a little CLI app in kotli...

# kotlin-native

[Rob Elliot]

Hi,

I’m trying to write a little CLI app in kotlin-native. I’d like to produce executables to work on all Linux distros and both macOS distros.

Obviously I get that the Linux & macOS executables will need to be different, and that the macOS executables will need to be different too.

I’ve been reading, and failing to understand, this thread:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-38876

I think the takeaway is that you can’t build on a particular distro and then reliably shift the resulting executable between all Linux distros because it links to dependencies that may or may not be there - is that correct?

[Rob Elliot]

Wondering if I should switch to graalvm’s native-image, which does produce an executable that works on any Linux distro (I think) when run with --static.

[mbonnin]

My understanding is that kotlin-native mostly requires glibc (the issue you linked has worarounds), which alpine linux doesn't use to save some space

[mbonnin]

So it's fine to build on Ubuntu and run on Gentoo for an example because they both use glibc

[mbonnin]

But if you care about super small docker images like alpine, you'll have go through the workarounds in the issue

[Rob Elliot]

Ok, great, I'll just do that then. It's an app designed to be used interactively by someone developing software locally, not really in a minimal docket container.