A mod in <#C0B8W32VA|meta> recommended this channe...

# compiler

[napperley]

A mod in #meta recommended this channel after I asked if there was a channel that covered porting Kotlin to new platforms. Currently I have made some changes to a forked Kotlin code base ( https://github.com/napperley/kotlin/tree/rp2040 ) to add rp2040 ( https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/microcontrollers/rp2040.html ) as an unofficial Kotlin target. Some key things are missing that I want to sort out which include the following:
• Connecting the official ARM GNU tool chain ( https://developer.arm.com/Tools%20and%20Software/GNU%20Toolchain ; GCC based & uses Newlib Standard library ) to the code base (incl sysroot and other important paths that the code base requires)
• Forcing the Kotlin compiler to omit the linking step and only generate a static library file for the rp2040 target
• Figure out what is meant by configurables and supply the necessary stuff that is relevant to the rp2040 target
When building the Kotlin code base an error appears about a unresolved JDK 7 dependency (some attempts are made to fetch the dependency from a Space server). As an added bonus I would like to automate the entire build via Gradle for the rp2040 target if possible, although that may not be feasible since the Raspberry Pi Pico SDK ( https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk ; also covers uC's that use the RP2040 uC chip ) uses CMake for generating a heavily optimized binary (via a tool provided by the SDK) from a static library file.

[Adam S]

This sounds exciting! I would like to help. Could you enable issues and/or discussions on your fork? blob smile

[napperley]

Unfortunately there is no way enable the Issue Tracker on the fork. JetBrains disabled the Issue Tracker on the original Kotlin repository a long time ago, hence there is no option to enable the Issue Tracker 😦. I'm looking to see if there is an alternative way to have discussions on the fork. Update: It turns out there is a setting to enable the Issue Tracker that is in an obscure location in Settings. The Issue Tracker is now enabled on the fork 😄.

[napperley]

After installing JDK 7 via SDK Man the Kotlin code base now builds successfully, although that only works for the Kotlin JVM & Kotlin JS compilers.

[hfhbd]

Hey, do you have any status? Did it work?