What does the early version of Kotlin 1.5.30 support in terms of platform code sharing with the C li...

# kotlin-native

[napperley]

What does the early version of Kotlin 1.5.30 support in terms of platform code sharing with the C libraries (eg C pointers)?

[Sebastian Sellmair [JB]]

Can you further clarify, maybe with code?
I unfortunately, did not get the question!

[napperley]

Currently with Kotlin 1.5.20 in a new library (under development) there is a Canvas class defined in the common module:

public expect class Canvas : Closable {
  // ...
}

In the linuxX64 module there is an actual implementation of Canvas which contains a pointer:

public expect class Canvas : Closable {
  public val cairoPtr: CPointer<cairo_t>? = cairo_create(surface.surfacePtr)
  // ...
}

I want to be able to have a linuxCommon module where platform specific stuff for Linux (like the C pointers) can be shared across all Linux modules.