And how do you do File/IO in K/Native?

# kotlin-native

[Animesh Sahu]

And how do you do File/IO in K/Native?

[Kris Wong]

https://github.com/AAkira/Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries#file

[Animesh Sahu]

@Kris Wong none of them seems to target native 😞

[Kris Wong]

iOS is native

[Kris Wong]

if you are looking for other targets, then you will most likely have to roll your own APIs

[Animesh Sahu]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io seems like this has future plans for Files IO

[gildor]

The most reliable and multiplatform (native) way is use posix api for files
But I'm not aware about ready to use wrappers for this

[napperley]

Sure iOS is native but Kotlin Native targets other platforms like Linux 🐧 for example. Kotlin Native isn't all about 🍎 platforms.

[napperley]

On Unix based platforms (eg Linux) it is recommended to use the POSIX APIs like @gildor has mentioned. Start with the FILE series of APIs from POSIX like fopen, fclose, fwrite, fread etc.

[sergey.bogolepov]

You can try https://tinlok.lotte.tf/en/latest/

[gildor]

It’s still quite big pain that there is no single file API for K/N targets

[Kris Wong]

IMO there are much bigger pains than that

[Kris Wong]

but I'm a mobile developer and we don't use files directly all that often

[gildor]

I’m a mobile developer and I use files every day, it one of the biggest parts of our business logic.

[v79]

I've been trying to use the POSIX file APIs, but am completely lost - sizeOf() doesn't return a size_t so I cannot work out how to use fwrite(). Pretty disappointed that file IO isn't a priority for K/N.

[gildor]

Could you share the code? There are examples in K/N repo