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# kotlin-nativen
nish
05/15/2017, 2:48 PM@olonho, i’ve been trying to put together shared static libs to call from JNI, but i haven’t had a whole lot of luck getting the method signatures correct
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olonho
05/15/2017, 2:54 PMnish: not sure how JNI relates to Kotlin Native. If you want to write JNI methods in kotlin/native, it's unlikely a good idea. In general, you do not need to match signatures, just names, if use SymbolName or ExportForCppRuntime annotations
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nish
05/15/2017, 2:55 PMWhat I want is to basically have a native library written in Kotlin native, that I can invoke from KotlinJVM
nish
05/15/2017, 2:55 PMI know it’s not 100% practical but just exploratory to see what it takes
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olonho
05/15/2017, 3:28 PMNot sure if this variant of interop have much practical sense, so it is unsupported
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madisp
05/15/2017, 7:13 PMbeing able to write shared libraries in general would be immensely useful though
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olonho
05/16/2017, 4:40 AMit could be made possible, with some tweaks in TLS variables generation and linking phase, however I am curious, how would you use shared library written in Kotlin/Native?
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madisp
05/16/2017, 11:18 AMthere are a multitude of uses for shared libraries 🙂 most common are probably extending other languages (JNI, Ruby, Python) and various plugin systems (for instance VSTs for live audio processing)
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