curious how Konan and Kotlin gradle plugin will wo...

# kotlin-native

[gildor]

curious how Konan and Kotlin gradle plugin will work together in multiplatform/multimodule setup

[ilya.matveev]

The Kotlin/Native plugin works in the same manner as other platform plugins do. You add a dependency from a platform project to a common one and may set up custom common source sets for different artefacts.

[albertgao]

@ilya.matveev Which means now the IDE will recognise the KN API? 🤩 Because it can solve them as dependencies in build.gradle?

[gildor]

@albertgao you can use dependencies to other modules even now, it’s gradle feature, so don’t think that something changed

[albertgao]

@gildor Thanks for the answer. A little bit confused. Let’s say I want to import platform.UIKit.*. How to add this platform.UIKit.* to build.gradle?

[gildor]

It's not a dependency. It's platform library

[gildor]

It's available by default on particular platform. Not related to multiplatform anyway

[gildor]

For example you can use UIKit onluly on Mac, you cannot build it on Windows or Linux

[albertgao]

I am using a Mac and build that already from the repo, how to get the building working? 😄 Do you mean that I need to use the building result from the KN repo?

[gildor]

Probably some bug, not sure. On sample project CLion and gradle can use platform libraries for me on mac

[albertgao]

Yes, it works for CLion but that is from the CMake settings which I’m not familiar with, how could you add this dependency in gradle? Could you show the secret? 😄 Thanks

[gildor]

Just works for me

[albertgao]

😅 So, what dependencies did you add in gradle?

[gildor]

no dependencies

[albertgao]

kotlin-stb-lib, kotlin-native-gradle-plugin

[albertgao]

😂oh, well

[gildor]

kotlin-native-gradle-plugin the only thing, but this is not a dependency, but gradle plugin

[albertgao]

yes

[albertgao]

I can’t build, gradle will say someting like can’t resolve the dependencies for UIKit

[gildor]

Maybe some problem with your local K/N bundle

[albertgao]

Yes, maybe. Not sure. Where do you put the project? inside the kn repo\samples ? Or just a fresh new one, build with kn-gradle-plugin?

[gildor]

Which version kotlin-native-gradle-plugin do you use?

[albertgao]

I have a fresh new one, everything works except for the platform specific API

[albertgao]

0.5

[albertgao]

😳 I should use 0.6 right?

[gildor]

0.6 not released officially

[albertgao]

Just change to 0.6, and got this Downloading native dependencies (LLVM, sysroot etc). This is a one-time action performed only on the first run of the compiler. Seems positive

[gildor]

You should have this also on first run of 0.5

[albertgao]

Forgot, that’s a while ago

[albertgao]

What does your build.gradle look like? Could you share it? 🙂