Current release: 1.5.0
Main branch: master
- April 27, 2022. Released version 1.6.0-RC1. Some notable changes:
- expanded Kotlinc options to support a generic
-Xopt-in
toolchain options - fixes for runfiles on Windows
- stripped out the legacy javac compilation in favor of the new java_common path
- support for passing
--jvmopt
values tokt_jvm_binary
- improved docs for all the toolchain changes
- a new java based persistent worker implementation that allows us to drop our dependency on coroutines
- fixes for JavaPluginInfo propogating non-null plugin information
- support for Kotlin 1.6 as well as
rules_kotlin
is now being built by Kotlin 1.6.x by default - expanded support for more
-Xjvm-default
options - experimental support for the new Kotlin frontend work that's being actively worked on by Jetbrains
- support for targeting java 15, 16, and 17 bytecode
- expanded Kotlinc options to support a generic
- Feb 2, 2022. Released version 1.5.0. Some notable changes:
- All the legacy-1.4 and 1.5-alpha/beta changes, plus
- More recent kotlin versions supported (1.5.x and basic 1.6.x support)
- 1.6 support may require more work and patch releases.
- improvements on option handling for plugins
- improvements in using the repo from head
- log4j security upgrades (in examples primarily)
- Fixed some plugin handling making jetpack compose work for more cases.
- Kotlin internal visibility supported across all libraries, not just tests (called "associates=")
- Support more recent bazel versions
- open the underlying
_kt
suffixed library forkt_android_*
targets so that "associates=" can work. - handle arguments to different compiler versions in a versioned way
- support explicit API mode
- tidy worker output (avoids random failures from bazel worker emiting non-proto data in stdout)
- do some better memory handling between work requests
- separate out jvm, js, and android rules (i.e. so projects aren't required to have everything android configured if htey don't use it, etc.)
- fixes to examples (jetpack compose, etc.)
- Oct 01, 2021. Released version 1.5.0-beta-4.
- Jul 27, 2021. Released version 1.5.0-beta-3.
- Dec 30, 2020. Released version 1.5.0-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']
- Dec 3, 2020. Released version 1.5.0-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
- Nov 16, 2020. Released version 1.4.0-rc4. Includes:
- Deterministic worker behavior
- Other minor stability fixes
- May 9, 2020. Released version 1.4.0-rc3. Includes:
- Fix to the binary release package itself.
- May 7, 2020. Released version 1.4.0-rc2. Includes:
- Fixes to release image production, which was broken in rc1.
- May 1, 2020. Released version 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)
- Feb 18, 2020. Changes to how the rules are consumed are live (prefer the release tarball or use development instructions, as stated in the readme).
- Feb 9, 2020. Released version 1.3.0. (No changes from
legacy-1.3.0-rc4
) - Oct 5, 2019. github.com/cgruber/rules_kotlin upstreamed into this repository.
For older news, please see Changelog
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)
Generated API documentation is available at https://bazelbuild.github.io/rules_kotlin/kotlin.
In the project's WORKSPACE
, declare the external repository and initialize the toolchains, like
this:
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:
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()
In your project's BUILD
files, load the Kotlin rules and use them like so:
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:jvm.bzl", "kt_jvm_library")
kt_jvm_library(
name = "package_name",
srcs = glob(["*.kt"]),
deps = [
"//path/to/dependency",
],
)
To enable a custom toolchain (to configure language level, etc.)
do the following. In a <workspace>/BUILD.bazel
file define the following:
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", "1.5" "1.6", or "1.7"
jvm_target = JAVA_LANGUAGE_LEVEL, # "1.6", "1.8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "15", "16", or "17"
language_version = KOTLIN_LANGUAGE_LEVEL, # "1.1", "1.2", "1.3", "1.4", "1.5" "1.6", or "1.7"
)
and then in your WORKSPACE
file, instead of kt_register_toolchains()
do
register_toolchains("//:kotlin_toolchain")
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:
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"
)
)
(e.g. Maven artifacts)
Third party (external) artifacts can be brought in with systems such as rules_jvm_external
or bazel_maven_repository
or 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.
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:
# 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",
local_path = "../path/to/rules_kotlin_clone/"
)
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()
To use rules_kotlin from head without cloning the repository, (caveat emptor, of course), change the rules to this:
# Download master or specific revisions
http_archive(
name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin_master",
strip_prefix = "rules_kotlin-master",
urls = ["https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin/archive/refs/heads/master.zip"],
)
load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin_master//src/main/starlark/release_archive:repository.bzl", "archive_repository")
archive_repository(
name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin",
source_repository_name = "io_bazel_rules_kotlin_master",
)
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()
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:
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:
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,
x_optin = ["kotlin.Experimental", "kotlin.ExperimentalStdlibApi"]
)
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.
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:
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 can be found in the examples directory, including usage with Android, Dagger, Node-JS, Kotlin compiler plugins, etc.
These rules were initially forked from pubref/rules_kotlin, and then re-forked from bazelbuild/rules_kotlin. They were merged back into this repository in October, 2019.
This project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, as are all contributions
See the CONTRIBUTING doc for information about how to contribute to this project.