When adding a dependency to `commonMain` that does not support a specific platform such as Kotlin/JS...

# multiplatform

[Mark Vogel]

When adding a dependency to commonMain that does not support a specific platform such as Kotlin/JS, how can I exclude the dependency from jsMain?

[jw]

Add a nonJsMain source set, add it to all non-JS targets, and define it there?

[Mark Vogel]

Could you give an example for accomplishing that?

[Mark Vogel]

Or perhaps point me to some documentation? I haven't been able to find much on how the multiplatform configurations work for that kind of thing

[jw]

here's an example of adding a nonJvmMain source set that's present in all targets except JVM: https://github.com/cashapp/turbine/commit/b86303d04a37b3b954fa1c3738f0aa39db3a7c7d#diff-49a96e7eea8a94af862798a45174e6ac43eb4f8b4bd40759b5da63ba31ec3ef7

[jw]

I didn't add any dependencies, but you would just put them into the source set like any other

[Mark Vogel]

Awesome! Thanks. Do you have any insight on the conversion between the sourceSetName { ... } in Groovy to the Kotlin equivalent? Is that val sourceSetName by creating { ... }?

[jw]

yes

[jw]

or create("sourceSetName") { } to tone down their crazy DSL

[Mark Vogel]

Awesome I'll see if I can make this work for my project
Thanks!

[John O'Reilly]

Had been meaning to do this as well for particular project....just tried it and works great! Thanks! https://github.com/joreilly/Confetti/pull/232/files#diff-cf9ae3b1eb7273a914f22b1e6d22d8447f88df0e7245a5b856fb751e507b979b

[John O'Reilly]

(in this case had dependency that was mobile specific that I didn't want pulled in for JVM)