Something I am confused about: I am creating a Kot...

# kotlin-native

[Draget]

Something I am confused about: I am creating a Kotlin Native application in IDEA and it creates a build.gradle.kts with 'repositories { mavenCentral() }. I somehow expected the Kotlin Native code not to work with JVM code - why would it include the repository for JVM dependencies?

[Big Chungus]

Maven artifact format is used to publish all kotlin libs, even native ones

[Big Chungus]

MavenCentral is not just for jvm, bur rather for maven artefacts (which can be anything, not just jars)

[Draget]

So there are libraries with native (non-jvm) code on Maven central and they are fine with that?

[Big Chungus]

Yes

[Draget]

I learned something new today. Always thought this was JVM only! Thanks.

[Draget]

This is my this years AoC challenge… going fully Kotlin-Native on that one.

[Big Chungus]

Do one better, go fully metadata-only. I.e. all code in commonMain compiled for all platforms 😀

[Draget]

Could you explain what this means? (New to Kotlin Native, despite doing Kotlin for a while xD)

[Big Chungus]

Are you familiar with kotlin multiplatform at all? It's a superset of kotlin native

[Draget]

I know what it is trying to archive, but no idea how it is done. That is one of my goals today evening. 😄

[Big Chungus]

Well it's basically a way to write platform independent code and then compile it to whatever platform you want. Here's an example of multiplatform library that has only common code https://github.com/mpetuska/kon

[Big Chungus]

You can also build multiplatform applications this way by configuring binaries

[Draget]

Using only code that can be compiled to native is one of my goals, yeah. Thought this is where I was heading… xD

I'll take a look

[ephemient]

I started to set my repository up for that MPP (JVM, JS, Native), but I couldn't get kotlinx-benchmark-runtime to link. may try again later

[Big Chungus]

This expands on the concept and alliws you to compile the same code for jvm, android, nodejs and browser as well

[ephemient]

but as it is you can create a multi-platform project with most or all code in common, e.g. https://github.com/ephemient/aoc2021/blob/main/kt/build.gradle.kts

[Landry Norris]

I've been using K/JVM, but haven't used any JVM-only features yet. I didn't thnk of making it fully multiplatform. I'll have to try that.