Many people use IDEs like IntelliJ or Android Studio to do Kotlin development.
Kotlin Command Line Compiler
Alternatively, you can download and install the Kotlin command line compiler using various package managers. Here's a doc from the Kotlin/JetBrain official website:
In this post, we will manually install the Kotlin compiler, say, on Ubuntu, for illustration.
$ wget https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/download/v1.6.20/kotlin-compiler-1.6.20.zip
$ unzip kotlin-compiler-1.6.20.zip
$ sudo mv kotlinc /opt/kotlinc
Then add the bin directory /opt/kotlinc/bin
to your system PATH
,
e.g., by editing the /etc/profile file (for BASH).
$ kotlinc -version
info: kotlinc-jvm 1.6.20 (JRE 17.0.2+8-Ubuntu-120.04)
$ kotlinc -help
Usage: kotlinc-jvm <options> <source files>
where possible options include:
-classpath (-cp) <path> List of directories and JAR/ZIP archives to search for user class files
-d <directory|jar> Destination for generated class files
-expression (-e) Evaluate the given string as a Kotlin script
-include-runtime Include Kotlin runtime into the resulting JAR
-java-parameters Generate metadata for Java 1.8 reflection on method parameters
-jdk-home <path> Include a custom JDK from the specified location into the classpath instead of the default JAVA_HOME
-jvm-target <version> Target version of the generated JVM bytecode (1.6 (DEPRECATED), 1.8, 9, 10, ..., 18), default is 1.8
-module-name <name> Name of the generated .kotlin_module file
-no-jdk Don't automatically include the Java runtime into the classpath
-no-reflect Don't automatically include Kotlin reflection into the classpath
-no-stdlib Don't automatically include the Kotlin/JVM stdlib and Kotlin reflection into the classpath
-script-templates <fully qualified class name[,]>
Script definition template classes
-Werror Report an error if there are any warnings
-api-version <version> Allow using declarations only from the specified version of bundled libraries
-X Print a synopsis of advanced options
-help (-h) Print a synopsis of standard options
-kotlin-home <path> Path to the home directory of Kotlin compiler used for discovery of runtime libraries
-language-version <version> Provide source compatibility with the specified version of Kotlin
-opt-in <fq.name> Enable usages of API that requires opt-in with an opt-in requirement marker with the given fully qualified name
-P plugin:<pluginId>:<optionName>=<value>
Pass an option to a plugin
-progressive Enable progressive compiler mode.
In this mode, deprecations and bug fixes for unstable code take effect immediately,
instead of going through a graceful migration cycle.
Code written in the progressive mode is backward compatible; however, code written in
non-progressive mode may cause compilation errors in the progressive mode.
-script Evaluate the given Kotlin script (*.kts) file
-nowarn Generate no warnings
-verbose Enable verbose logging output
-version Display compiler version
-J<option> Pass an option directly to JVM
@<argfile> Read compiler arguments and file paths from the given file
For details, see https://kotl.in/cli
What's Next
Now that we have a development environment set up, let's try creating a simple program.
- Next Step: Creating the first program in Kotlin
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