Kotlin/Native is a LLVM backend for the Kotlin compiler, runtime implementation and native code generation facility using LLVM toolchain.
Kotlin/Native is primarily designed to allow compilation for platforms where virtual machines are not desirable or possible (such as iOS, embedded targets), or where developer is willing to produce reasonably-sized self-contained program without need to ship an additional execution runtime.
Kotlin/Native could be used either as standalone compiler toolchain or as Gradle plugin. See documentation for more details on how to use this plugin.
Compile your programs like that:
export PATH=kotlin-native-<platform>-<version>/bin:$PATH
kotlinc hello.kt -o hello
For an optimized compilation use -opt:
kotlinc hello.kt -o hello -opt
To generate interoperability stubs create library definition file
(take a look on Tetris sample)
and run cinterop tool like this:
cinterop -def lib.def
See C interop documentation for more information on how to use C libraries from Kotlin/Native.
See RELEASE_NOTES.md for information on supported platforms and current limitations.