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Hi folks, |
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I have been quite busy creating the ebuilds that build the Kotlin |
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libraries from source during the past week, and I am pleased to report |
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that the work is now complete and the ebuilds are installable and |
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usable. Every Kotlin library listed here [1] can be built from source |
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using those ebuilds. All ebuilds have been pushed to my fork of the |
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Spark overlay [2]. |
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To use the ebuilds to build the Kotlin libraries from source, binary |
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JARs for kotlin-stdlib and kotlin-reflect pre-built by the upstream |
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must be installed first for bootstrapping. Then, after the Kotlin |
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compiler package -- dev-lang/kotlin-bin -- is installed, the libraries |
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can be built from source. The exact commands to build and install the |
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libraries from source are: |
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env USE="binary" emerge -a1 dev-java/kotlin-stdlib dev-java/kotlin-reflect |
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emerge --ask dev-lang/kotlin-bin |
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emerge --ask --update --newuse --deep @world |
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The ebuilds only use kotlinc and javac to build the Kotlin libraries. |
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Although Gradle is used by the upstream to build Kotlin, it is not |
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used in those ebuilds. I extracted the commands Gradle would run to |
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build each library component to create those ebuilds. |
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I am currently in the process of writing a blog post describing how I |
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discovered the way to extract those commands from Gradle and |
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surmounted various challenges in creating those ebuilds, and I have |
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also planned to provide more documentation regarding installing and |
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maintaining those packages. The blog post is supposed to be completed |
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today, but I really cannot make it because there are really lots of |
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things to talk about and my brain is slowing down as bedtime is coming |
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closer and closer. I am sorry for the delay. Once it is published |
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(hopefully tomorrow), I will post the link to it in a reply to this |
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email. The link to the documentation will also be posted after it is |
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done. |
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Best regards, |
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Leo |
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[1]: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/v1.5.20/libraries |
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[2]: https://github.com/Leo3418/spark-overlay/tree/master/dev-java#:~:text=kotlin-annotations-jvm |
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