Is it the case that Kotlin/Native after 1.3.0 is now a part of kotlin-multiplatform and Gradle must ...

# kotlin-native

[pajatopmr]

Is it the case that Kotlin/Native after 1.3.0 is now a part of kotlin-multiplatform and Gradle must be used to build an executable? Not that that is a bad thing, just more to learn before I can totally grok the moving pieces of a Kotlin/Native app.

[gildor]

Gradle is only build system that supports multiplatform and there is a lot of tooling involved, you can build manually I belive, but it would be really tedious to configure and support

[pajatopmr]

Understood. My only goal in removing Gradle is for learning. Wouldn’t dream of not using Gradle for anything production related.

[gildor]

Why?

[gildor]

Anyway, if you don’t need MPP, just native, you can download native binaries and build without build system:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.3.0

[pajatopmr]

This is what I downloaded. No kotlinc-native was to be found.

[gildor]

What exactly did you download?

[gildor]

This is kotlin-native binaries

[pajatopmr]

kotlin-native-macos-1.3.0.zip if memory serves.

[gildor]

Sooo, what doesn’t work in this case?

[gildor]

Just unzip it, there is kotlinc in bin directory

[gildor]

Also, there is README about standalone compiler in repository and inside this distribution:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/DISTRO_README.md

[pajatopmr]

I dowloaded the compiler for macos. I will now try the macos native tar.gz file you linked to. That could be the issue.

[gildor]

compiler for macos? do you mean kotlin-compiler-1.3.0-release-macos-x64.zip?
yes, this is Kotlin without native support, just AOT version of Kotlin for JVM/JS

[pajatopmr]

Yes, that was my mistake. Now it works for me. Thanks!

[gildor]

👍

[msink]

Gradle and kotlin-multiplatform must be used only if you want IDE support in IntelliJ or CLion. If all you want is command-line compiler - just download latest release bundle from kotlin-native repository.

[gildor]

from kotlin-native repository

After 1.3 bundle available as part of Kotlin releases on Kotlin repo