<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/3771> I finally tracked down the cause of Alpine ...

# kotlin-native

[serebit]

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/3771 I finally tracked down the cause of Alpine being unable to compile Kotlin/Native projects. I spent a decent amount of time writing up a conclusive bug report, hopefully this will be resolved soon!

[napperley]

Would highly recommend using Debian (includes the glibc library that Kotlin Native relies on) instead for this reason.

[serebit]

That's what I'm using for CI in the meantime, but Alpine is so much lighter and easier to work with that I'd rather this get fixed at some point.

[napperley]

Understood however it is important in the beginning to get basic stuff working first, before fine tuning it.

[napperley]

Very surprised that one one has raised the issue earlier.

[serebit]

I know! I was shocked to see that nobody had reported this on the Github. I've run up against this issue before, but I never investigated it enough to figure out why Alpine in particular was running into this problem.

[olonho]

thanks for investigation, do binaries produced with K/N compiler even run on Alpine Linux? They at least shall use backtrace symbol as well.

[serebit]

The binary that's built by the above example on a different distribution fails with an error I've never seen before when run on Alpine, @olonho :

Relink `/usr/lib/libusb-1.0.so.0' with `/usr/glibc-compat/lib/libc.so.6' for IFUNC symbol `strcpy'