Kotlin-native: Does kotlin native support windows platform?

[cnmade]

Does kotlin native support windows platform?
How to play kotlin native on windows platform? Any document guide us?

[olonho]

No, neither Windows hosts nor targets are not supported at the moment. This may be reconsidered in the future, but no concrete plans yet.

[Scellow]

+1 for Windows, if making game, then Windows is important

[Restioson]

+1

[cnmade]

Golang, rust support windows, so they grows well.

[sgf]

@netroby @olonho @Restioson @Scellow
Supporting Windows is a very important strategy. After all, Windows has a very large user capacity(also programmers). And because C # (. NET native) is not going well(seems will always support UWP only).
The Llic project(https://github.com/dotnet/llilc) seems to have been abandoned.

Kotlin should quickly preempt the market.If so, Kotlin is maybe can be to replace the position of C++.
Become a mainstream native language.

sorry,my bad english.

[Restioson]

I don't think a language needs to preempt anything, or force people to use it just because it's popular. The goal should be to create a clear, beautiful, and functioning (not as in functional language) language.

[sgf]

@Restioson Kotlin is not better than java in JVM?
i think there is many Beautiful Language is died in history.
C++ is not good and Beautiful,but why its soo popular?
Do Supports a platform is not force any one,just Give people more choices.. a good and better chose.
A too conservative language will be eliminated.

[Restioson]

Kotlin should quickly preempt the market.If so, Kotlin is maybe can to replace the position of C++

This, to me, sounds a bit hostile. You don't need to "preempt" anything. Replacing C++ would mean forcing people to use it over C++ as I see it.

[Restioson]

I do agree that it should be compilable to native Windows executables, if possible.

[pvcresin]

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/06/kotlinnative-v0-3-is-out/

With the release of version v0.3 Windows is supported as both a compilation host and execution target, and Google Android devices as an execution target with native activities.

awesome!

[dazza5000]

I am new to this. Does anyone know if we can target Windows XP with kotlin native?

[harry1453]

@dazza5000 In my experience you cannot target Windows XP, even when using the mingwX86 target because Kotlin/Native runtime imports GetTickCount64, which, according to the documentation, is only available in Kernel32.dll on Windows Vista / Server 2008 or newer. If you try to run a Kotlin/Native program on Windows XP you get an error message saying that GetTickCount64 could not be found.

[dazza5000]

thank you @harry1453 - a very thorough response!