# Kotlin/Native Gradle plugin

### IMPORTANT NOTICE

This document describes Kotlin/Native experimental Gradle plugin, which is not the plugin yet supported by IDE
or in multiplatform projects. See MPP Gradle plugin [documentation](https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/building-mpp-with-gradle.html)
for more information.

### Overview

You may use the Gradle plugin to build _Kotlin/Native_ projects. Builds of the plugin are
[available](https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.native) at the Gradle plugin portal, so you can apply it
using Gradle plugin DSL:

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```groovy
plugins {
    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.native" version "1.3.0-rc-146"
}
```

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You also can get the plugin from a Bintray repository. In addition to releases, this repo contains old and development
versions of the plugin which are not available at the plugin portal. To get the plugin from the Bintray repo, include
the following snippet in your build script:
   
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```groovy
buildscript {
   repositories {
       mavenCentral()
       maven {
           url "https://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/kotlin-native-dependencies"
       }
   }

   dependencies {
       classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-native-gradle-plugin:1.3.0-rc-146"
   }
}

apply plugin: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.native'
```

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By default the plugin downloads the Kotlin/Native compiler during the first run. If you have already downloaded the compiler
manually you can specify the path to its root directory using `konan.home` project property (e.g. in `gradle.properties`).

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```groovy
konan.home=/home/user/kotlin-native-0.8
```

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In this case the compiler will not be downloaded by the plugin.

### Source management

Source management in the `kotlin.platform.native` plugin is uniform with other Kotlin plugins and is based on source sets.
A source set is a group of Kotlin/Native source which may contain both common and platform-specific code. The plugin
provides a top-level script block `sourceSets` allowing you to configure source sets. Also it creates the default
source sets `main` and `test` (for production and test code respectively).

By default the production sources are located in `src/main/kotlin` and the test sources - in `src/test/kotlin`.

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```groovy
sourceSets {
    // Adding target-independent sources.
    main.kotlin.srcDirs += 'src/main/mySources'
    
    // Adding Linux-specific code. It will be compiled in Linux binaries only.
    main.target('linux_x64').srcDirs += 'src/main/linux'
}
```

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### Targets and output kinds

By default the plugin creates software components for the main and test source sets. You can access them via the
`components` container provided by Gradle or via the `component` property of a corresponding source set:

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```groovy
// Main component.
components.main
sourceSets.main.component

// Test component.
components.test
sourceSets.test.component
```

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Components allow you to specify:

* Targets (e.g. Linux/x64 or iOS/arm64 etc)
* Output kinds (e.g. executable, library, framework etc)
* Dependencies (including interop ones)

Targets can be specified by setting a corresponding component property:

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```groovy
components.main {
    // Compile this component for 64-bit MacOS, Linux and Windows.
    targets = ['macos_x64', 'linux_x64', 'mingw_x64']
}
```

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The plugin uses the same notation as the compiler. By default, test component uses the same targets as specified for the main one.

Output kinds can also be specified using a special property:

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```groovy
components.main {
    // Compile the component into an executable and a Kotlin/Native library.
    outputKinds = [EXECUTABLE, KLIBRARY]
}
```

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All constants used here are available inside a component configuration script block.
The plugin supports producing binaries of the following kinds:

* `EXECUTABLE` - an executable file;
* `KLIBRARY` - a Kotlin/Native library (*.klib);
* `FRAMEWORK` - an Objective-C framework;
* `DYNAMIC` - shared native library;
* `STATIC` - static native library.

Also each native binary is built in two variants (build types): `debug` (debuggable, not optimized) and `release` (not debuggable, optimized).
Note that Kotlin/Native libraries have only `debug` variant because optimizations are preformed only during compilation
of a final binary (executable, static lib etc) and affect all libraries used to build it.

### Compile tasks

The plugin creates a compilation task for each combination of the target, output kind, and build type. The tasks have the following naming convention:

    compile<ComponentName><BuildType><OutputKind><Target>KotlinNative

For example `compileDebugKlibraryMacos_x64KotlinNative`, `compileTestDebugKotlinNative`.

The name contains the following parts (some of them may be empty):

* `<ComponentName>` - name of a component. Empty for the main component.
* `<BuildType>` - `Debug` or `Release`.
* `<OutputKind>` - output kind name, e.g. `Executabe` or `Dynamic`. Empty if the component has only one output kind.
* `<Target>` - target the component is built for, e.g. `Macos_x64` or `Wasm32`. Empty if the component is built only for one target.

Also the plugin creates a number of aggregate tasks allowing you to build all the binaries for a build type (e.g.
`assembleAllDebug`) or all the binaries for a particular target (e.g. `assembleAllWasm32`).

Basic lifecycle tasks like `assemble`, `build`, and `clean` are also available.

### Running tests

The plugin builds a test executable for all the targets specified for the `test` component. If the current host platform is
included in this list the test running tasks are also created. To run tests, execute the standard lifecycle `check` task:

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```bash
./gradlew check
```

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### Dependencies

The plugin allows you to declare dependencies on files and other projects using traditional Gradle's mechanism of
configurations. The plugin supports Kotlin multiplatform projects allowing you to declare the `expectedBy` dependencies

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```groovy
dependencies {
    implementation files('path/to/file/dependencies')
    implementation project('library')
    testImplementation project('testLibrary')
    expectedBy project('common')
}
```

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It's possible to depend on a Kotlin/Native library published earlier in a maven repo. The plugin relies on Gradle's
[metadata](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/docs/src/docs/design/gradle-module-metadata-specification.md)
support so the corresponding feature must be enabled. Add the following line in your `settings.gradle`:

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```groovy
enableFeaturePreview('GRADLE_METADATA')
```

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Now you can declare a dependency on a Kotlin/Native library in the traditional `group:artifact:version` notation:

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```groovy
dependencies {
    implementation 'org.sample.test:mylibrary:1.0'
    testImplementation 'org.sample.test:testlibrary:1.0'
}
```

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Dependency declaraion is also possible in the component block:

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```groovy
components.main {
    dependencies {
        implementation 'org.sample.test:mylibrary:1.0'
    }
}

components.test {
    dependencies {
        implementation 'org.sample.test:testlibrary:1.0'
    }
}
```

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### Using cinterop

It's possible to declare a cinterop dependency for a component:

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```groovy
components.main {
    dependencies {
        cinterop('mystdio') {
            // src/main/c_interop/mystdio.def is used as a def file.

            // Set up compiler options
            compilerOpts '-I/my/include/path'

            // It's possible to set up different options for different targets
            target('linux') {
                compilerOpts '-I/linux/include/path'
            }
        }
    }
}
```

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Here an interop library will be built and added in the component dependencies.

Often it's necessary to specify target-specific linker options for a Kotlin/Native binary using an interop. It can be
done using the `target` script block:

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```groovy
components.main {
    target('linux') {
        linkerOpts '-L/path/to/linux/libs'
    }
}
```

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Also the `allTargets` block is available.

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```groovy
components.main {
    // Configure all targets.
    allTargets {
        linkerOpts '-L/path/to/libs'
    }
}
```

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### Publishing

In the presence of `maven-publish` plugin the publications for all the binaries built are created. The plugin uses Gradle
metadata to publish the artifacts so this feature must be enabled (see the [dependencies](#dependencies) section).

Now you can publish the artifacts with the standard Gradle `publish` task:

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```bash
./gradlew publish
```

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Only `EXECUTABLE` and `KLIBRARY` binaries are published currently.

The plugin allows you to customize the pom generated for the publication with the `pom` code block available for every component:

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```groovy
components.main {
    pom {
        withXml {
            def root = asNode()
            root.appendNode('name', 'My library')
            root.appendNode('description', 'A Kotlin/Native library')
        }
    }
}
```

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### Serialization plugin

The plugin is shipped with a customized version of the `kotlinx.serialization` plugin. To use it you don't have to 
add new buildscript dependencies, just apply the plugins and add a dependency on the serialization library:

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```groovy
apply plugin: 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.native'
apply plugin: 'kotlinx-serialization-native'

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime-native'
}
```

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The the [example project](https://github.com/ilmat192/kotlin-native-serialization-sample) for details.

### DSL example

In this section a commented DSL is shown. 
See also the example projects that use this plugin, e.g.
[Kotlinx.coroutines](https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines),
[MPP http client](https://github.com/e5l/http-client-common/tree/master/samples/ios-test-application)

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```groovy
plugins {
    id "org.jetbrains.kotlin.platform.native" version "1.3.0-rc-146"
}

sourceSets.main {
    // Plugin uses Gradle's source directory sets here,
    // so all the DSL methods available in SourceDirectorySet can be called here.
    // Platform independent sources.
    kotlin.srcDirs += 'src/main/customDir'

    // Linux-specific sources
    target('linux').srcDirs += 'src/main/linux'
}

components.main {

    // Set up targets
    targets = ['linux_x64', 'macos_x64', 'mingw_x64']

    // Set up output kinds
    outputKinds = [EXECUTABLE, KLIBRARY, FRAMEWORK, DYNAMIC, STATIC]
    
    // Specify custom entry point for executables
    entryPoint = "org.test.myMain"

    // Target-specific options
    target('linux_x64') {
        linkerOpts '-L/linux/lib/path'
    }

    // Targets independent options
    allTargets {
        linkerOpts '-L/common/lib/path'
    }

    dependencies {

        // Dependency on a published Kotlin/Native library.
        implementation 'org.test:mylib:1.0'

        // Dependency on a project
        implementation project('library')

        // Cinterop dependency
        cinterop('interop-name') {
            // Def-file describing the native API.
            // The default path is src/main/c_interop/<interop-name>.def
            defFile project.file("deffile.def")

            // Package to place the Kotlin API generated.
            packageName 'org.sample'

            // Options to be passed to compiler and linker by cinterop tool.
            compilerOpts 'Options for native stubs compilation'
            linkerOpts 'Options for native stubs'

            // Additional headers to parse.
            headers project.files('header1.h', 'header2.h')

            // Directories to look for headers.
            includeDirs {
                // All objects accepted by the Project.file method may be used with both options.

                // Directories for header search (an analogue of the -I<path> compiler option).
                allHeaders 'path1', 'path2'

                // Additional directories to search headers listed in the 'headerFilter' def-file option.
                // -headerFilterAdditionalSearchPrefix command line option analogue.
                headerFilterOnly 'path1', 'path2'
            }
            // A shortcut for includeDirs.allHeaders.
            includeDirs "include/directory" "another/directory"

            // Pass additional command line options to the cinterop tool.
            extraOpts '-shims', 'true'

            // Additional configuration for Linux.
            target('linux') {
                compilerOpts 'Linux-specific options'
            }
        }
    }

    // Additional pom settings for publication.
    pom {
        withXml {
            def root = asNode()
            root.appendNode('name', 'My library')
            root.appendNode('description', 'A Kotlin/Native library')
        }
    }

    // Additional options passed to the compiler.
    extraOpts '--time'
}
```

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