# rules_kotlin

**Repository Path**: mirrors_benjaminp/rules_kotlin

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: rules_kotlin
- **Description**: Bazel rules for Kotlin
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-10-28
- **Last Updated**: 2025-10-11

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## README

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# Bazel Kotlin Rules

Current release: ***`legacy-1.3.0`***<br />
Release candidate: ***`1.5.0-alpha-2`***<br />
Main branch: `master`

# News!
* <b>Dec 30, 2020.</b> Released version [1.5.0-alpha-2](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/v1.5.0-alpha-2). Includes:
  - Expanded kotlinc options
  - New optimized compilation path (using JavaBuilder) `--define=experimental_use_abi_jars=1`.
    - *Caveat*: compilation may fail due to https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40133, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40340, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41381
    - *Workaround*: add `tags=['kt_abi_plugin_incompatible']`
* <b>Dec 3, 2020.</b> Released version [1.5.0-alpha-1](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/v1.5.0-alpha-1). Includes:
  - Kotlin 1.4 support
  - Lots of different fixes, especially to kotlinc plugins, `exported_compiler_plugins`, etc.
  - Supports the new IR backend
  - Improvements to the kotlin ABI support
* <b>Nov 16, 2020.</b> Released version [1.4.0-rc4](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/legacy-1.4.0-rc4). Includes:
  - Deterministic worker behavior
  - Other minor stability fixes
* <b>May 9, 2020.</b> Released version [1.4.0-rc3](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/legacy-1.4.0-rc3). Includes:
  - Fix to the binary release package itself.
* <b>May 7, 2020.</b> Released version [1.4.0-rc2](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/legacy-1.4.0-rc2). Includes:
  - Fixes to release image production, which was broken in rc1.
* <b>May 1, 2020.</b> Released version [1.4.0-rc1](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/legacy-1.4.0-rc1). Includes:
  - Pre-built binary worker
  - Support for Kotlin compiler plugins via the kt_compiler_plugin (#308)
  - Improved determinism for remote builds (#304)
  - Avoids packaging non-kotlin-generated sources (#263)
  - Fix for proper classpath handling for java_plugins (annotation processors) (#318)
  - Supports propagating kotlin version in metadata (which IDEs can consume) (#242)
* <b>Feb 18, 2020.</b> Changes to how the rules are consumed are live (prefer the release tarball or use development instructions, as stated in the readme).
* <b>Feb 9, 2020.</b> Released version [1.3.0](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/tag/legacy-1.3.0). (No changes from `legacy-1.3.0-rc4`)
* <b>Oct 5, 2019.</b> github.com/cgruber/rules_kotlin upstreamed into this repository. 

For older news, please see [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md)

# Overview 

**rules_kotlin** supports the basic paradigm of `*_binary`, `*_library`, `*_test` of other Bazel 
language rules. It also supports `jvm`, `android`, and `js` flavors, with the prefix `kt_jvm`
and `kt_js`, and `kt_android` typically applied to the rules.

Support for kotlin's -Xfriend-paths via the `associates=` attribute in the jvm allow access to
`internal` members.

Also, `kt_jvm_*` rules support the following standard `java_*` rules attributes:
  * `data`
  * `resource_jars`
  * `runtime_deps`
  * `resources`
  * `resources_strip_prefix`
  * `exports`
  
Android rules also support custom_package for `R.java` generation, `manifest=`, `resource_files`, etc.

Other features:
  * Persistent worker support.
  * Mixed-Mode compilation (compile Java and Kotlin in one pass).
  * Configurable Kotlinc distribtution and version
  * Configurable Toolchain
  * Kotlin 1.3 support
  
Javascript is reported to work, but is not as well maintained (at present)

# Documentation

Generated API documentation is available at
[https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_kotlin/kotlin](https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_kotlin/kotlin).

# Quick Guide

## `WORKSPACE`
In the project's `WORKSPACE`, declare the external repository and initialize the toolchains, like
this:

```python
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

rules_kotlin_version = "legacy-1.3.0"
rules_kotlin_sha = "4fd769fb0db5d3c6240df8a9500515775101964eebdf85a3f9f0511130885fde"
http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin",
    urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/archive/%s.zip" % rules_kotlin_version],
    type = "zip",
    strip_prefix = "rules_kotlin-%s" % rules_kotlin_version,
    sha256 = rules_kotlin_sha,
)

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:repositories.bzl", "kotlin_repositories")
kotlin_repositories() # if you want the default. Otherwise see custom kotlinc distribution below

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_register_toolchains")
kt_register_toolchains() # to use the default toolchain, otherwise see toolchains below
```

> Note - as of 1.4.0, release binaries will be available in which case you should do the following:

```python
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")

rules_kotlin_version = "legacy-1.4.0-rc3"
rules_kotlin_sha = "<release sha>"
http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin",
    urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/releases/download/%s/rules_kotlin_release.tgz" % rules_kotlin_version],
    sha256 = rules_kotlin_sha,
)

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:repositories.bzl", "kotlin_repositories")
kotlin_repositories()

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_register_toolchains")
kt_register_toolchains()
```

## `BUILD` files

In your project's `BUILD` files, load the Kotlin rules and use them like so:

```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:jvm.bzl", "kt_jvm_library")

kt_jvm_library(
    name = "package_name",
    srcs = glob(["*.kt"]),
    deps = [
        "//path/to/dependency",
    ],
)
```

## Custom toolchain

To enable a custom toolchain (to configure language level, etc.)
do the following.  In a `<workspace>/BUILD.bazel` file define the following:

```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "define_kt_toolchain")

define_kt_toolchain(
    name = "kotlin_toolchain",
    api_version = KOTLIN_LANGUAGE_LEVEL,  # "1.1", "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", or "1.5"
    jvm_target = JAVA_LANGUAGE_LEVEL, # "1.6", "1.8", "9", "10", "11", "12", or "13",
    language_version = KOTLIN_LANGUAGE_LEVEL,  # "1.1", "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", or "1.5"
)
```

and then in your `WORKSPACE` file, instead of `kt_register_toolchains()` do

```python
register_toolchains("//:kotlin_toolchain")
```

## Custom `kotlinc` distribution (and version)

To choose a different `kotlinc` distribution (1.3 and 1.4 variants supported), do the following
in your `WORKSPACE` file (or import from a `.bzl` file:

```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:repositories.bzl", "kotlin_repositories", "kotlinc_version")

kotlin_repositories(
    compiler_release = kotlinc_version(
        release = "1.3.31", # just the numeric version
        sha256 = "107325d56315af4f59ff28db6837d03c2660088e3efeb7d4e41f3e01bb848d6a"
    )
)
```

## Third party dependencies 
_(e.g. Maven artifacts)_

Third party (external) artifacts can be brought in with systems such as [`rules_jvm_external`](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external) or [`bazel_maven_repository`](https://github.com/square/bazel_maven_repository) or [`bazel-deps`](https://github.com/johnynek/bazel-deps), but make sure the version you use doesn't naively use `java_import`, as this will cause bazel to make an interface-only (`ijar`), or ABI jar, and the native `ijar` tool does not know about kotlin metadata with respect to inlined functions, and will remove method bodies inappropriately.  Recent versions of `rules_jvm_external` and `bazel_maven_repository` are known to work with Kotlin.

# Development Setup Guide
As of 1.5.0, to use the rules directly from the rules_kotlin workspace (i.e. not the release artifact)
 require the use of `release_archive` repository. This repository will build and configure the current
 workspace to use `rules_kotlin` in the same manner as the released binary artifact.

In the project's `WORKSPACE`, change the setup:
```python

# Use local check-out of repo rules (or a commit-archive from github via http_archive or git_repository)
local_repository(
    name = "release_archive",
    path = "../path/to/rules_kotlin_clone/src/main/starlark/release_archive",
)

load("@release_archive//:repository.bzl", "archive_repository")

archive_repository(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin",
)

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:repositories.bzl", "kotlin_repositories", "versions")

kotlin_repositories()

load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_register_toolchains")

kt_register_toolchains()
```

# Kotlin and Java compiler flags

The `kt_kotlinc_options` and `kt_javac_options` rules allows passing compiler flags to kotlinc and javac.

Note: Not all compiler flags are supported in all language versions. When this happens, the rules will fail.

For example you can define global compiler flags by doing: 
```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_kotlinc_options", "kt_javac_options", "define_kt_toolchain")

kt_kotlinc_options(
    name = "kt_kotlinc_options",
    warn = "report",
)

kt_javac_options(
    name = "kt_javac_options",
    warn = "report",
    x_ep_disable_all_checks = False,
)

define_kt_toolchain(
    name = "kotlin_toolchain",
    kotlinc_options = "//:kt_kotlinc_options",
    javac_options = "//:kt_javac_options",
)
```

You can optionally override compiler flags at the target level by providing an alternative set of `kt_kotlinc_options` or `kt_javac_options` in your target definitions.

Compiler flags that are passed to the rule definitions will be taken over the toolchain definition.

Example:
```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_kotlinc_options", "kt_javac_options", "kt_jvm_library")
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:jvm.bzl","kt_javac_options", "kt_jvm_library")

kt_kotlinc_options(
    name = "kt_kotlinc_options_for_package_name",
    warn = "error",
)

kt_javac_options(
    name = "kt_javac_options_for_package_name",
    warn = "error",
    x_ep_disable_all_checks = True,
)

kt_jvm_library(
    name = "package_name",
    srcs = glob(["*.kt"]),
    kotlinc_options = "//:kt_kotlinc_options_for_package_name",
    javac_options = "//:kt_javac_options_for_package_name",
    deps = ["//path/to/dependency"],
)
```

Additionally, you can add options for both tracing and timing of the bazel build using the `kt_trace` and `kt_timings` flags, for example:
* `bazel build --define=kt_trace=1`
* `bazel build --define=kt_timings=1`

`kt_trace=1` will allow you to inspect the full kotlinc commandline invocation, while `kt_timings=1` will report the high level time taken for each step.
# Kotlin compiler plugins

The `kt_compiler_plugin` rule allows running Kotlin compiler plugins, such as no-arg, sam-with-receiver and allopen.

For example, you can add allopen to your project like this:
```python
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:core.bzl", "kt_compiler_plugin")
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:jvm.bzl", "kt_jvm_library")

kt_compiler_plugin(
    name = "open_for_testing_plugin",
    id = "org.jetbrains.kotlin.allopen",
    options = {
        "annotation": "plugin.allopen.OpenForTesting",
    },
    deps = [
        "@com_github_jetbrains_kotlin//:allopen-compiler-plugin",
    ],
)

kt_jvm_library(
    name = "user",
    srcs = ["User.kt"], # The User class is annotated with OpenForTesting
    plugins = [
        ":open_for_testing_plugin",
    ],
    deps = [
        ":open_for_testing", # This contains the annotation (plugin.allopen.OpenForTesting)
    ],
)
```

Full examples of using compiler plugins can be found [here](examples/plugin).

## Examples

Examples can be found in the [examples directory](https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/tree/master/examples), including usage with Android, Dagger, Node-JS, Kotlin compiler plugins, etc.

# History

These rules were initially forked from [pubref/rules_kotlin](http://github.com/pubref/rules_kotlin), and then re-forked from [bazelbuild/rules_kotlin](http://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin). They were merged back into this repository in October, 2019.

# License

This project is licensed under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE), as are all contributions

# Contributing

See the [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) doc for information about how to contribute to
this project.