So you build your Kotlin app, you went through the trouble of creating a build.gradle script that you build with
gradle assemble
this outputs a a “build/libs/kotlin.jar” .jar file, but you have no clue how to run your Kotlin code from the command line.
Doing it by hand with “java -cp
gradle run
or even
gradle -b /home/myuser/mykotlinapp/build.gradle run
in case you need to run your Kotlin script from a cronjob.
Make sure you have the following inside your build.gradle script in order to make the “run” task available
apply plugin: 'application'
// DO notice the "Kt" suffix on the class name below, if you don't use the Kt generated class you will get errors
mainClassName = 'com.myapp.MyKotlinAppKt'
// optional: add one string per argument you want as the default JVM args
applicationDefaultJvmArgs = ["-Xms512m", "-Xmx1g"]
What if I don’t want to use gradle, and just java
ok… ok…
java -cp $KOTLIN_LIB/kotlin-runtime.jar:build/libs/kotlin.jar:
