If I have a KN library code that uses coroutines and I want to call that code for example from C, ho...

# kotlin-native

[Patrick]

If I have a KN library code that uses coroutines and I want to call that code for example from C, how would I initialize the event loop?
Right now I am getting this error:`kotlin.IllegalStateException: There is no event loop. Use runBlocking { ... } to start one.`

[Patrick]

If I call that library from Kotlin, I can just use fun main() = runBlocking {...}, but how would I call this with C code?

[basher]

You'd need up create a function that calls runBlocking and then calls your coroutines code inside that

[Patrick]

The problem is that this library is full of coroutine code. And I would like to avoid using runBlocking for each and every function. I guess I could just create an alias for runBlocking and then call everything inside that function but that would look pretty confusing to the developer who would have to use the library I think.

[basher]

Generally, C doesn't support suspend, so I'm not sure how you avoid it

[Patrick]

Yeah I was mainly asking if there is a solution for this already, since this may be a use case that could be very popular, because kotlin coroutines are basically supported on every platform now.

[basher]

AFAIK, there isn't 😕

[Kavan]

Workers are only form of coroutines implemented yet for K/N.