Hi, am I right in thinking that it is impossible t...

# kotlin-native

[sena]

Hi, am I right in thinking that it is impossible to generate android native libraries and executables which utilise the kotlinx serialization library?

> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':self-common:androidNativeArm32CompileKlibraries'.
   > Could not resolve org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime:0.20.0-1.4-M2.
     Required by:
         project :self-common
      > Unable to find a matching variant of org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime:0.20.0-1.4-M2:
          - Variant 'iosArm32-api' capability org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime:0.20.0-1.4-M2:
              - Incompatible attribute:
                  - Required org.jetbrains.kotlin.native.target 'android_arm32' and found incompatible value 'ios_arm32'.
              - Other attributes:
                  - Found org.gradle.status 'release' but wasn't required.
                  - Required org.gradle.usage 'kotlin-api' and found compatible value 'kotlin-api'.
                  - Required org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.type 'native' and found compatible value 'native'.
          - Variant 'iosArm32-iosArm32MetadataElements' capability org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime:0.20.0-1.4-M2:

If this is is stated somewhere obvious apologies as I haven’t seen it.

[Sam]

I don’t think there is a technical limitation. If they’re not supplying the pre-built binary, it will require compiling it yourself. I’m not sure how to do that. Maybe within your own maven repository?

[russhwolf]

Not very documented, but you can see the list of declared targets here https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/ffe216f0293231b09eea24a10aa4bc26ff6d5b90/gradle/native_mpp.gradle#L23-L47

[sena]

@Sam thanks, any pointers on where I can figure out how to do that?

[sena]

@russhwolf are you suggesting that modifying this to add the targets is a good place to start?

[russhwolf]

I just mean that's where you can check if serialization currently supports the platform you want. You could try forking and adding it but I don't know what other work you'll need to do to get it to run.

[sena]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/862