Re: kotlin progress

2021-04-02 Thread Phil Morrell
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 03:36:35PM +0100, Phil Morrell wrote: > The latest packaging can be found on salsa. It is capable of building > itself but doesn't yet include all the required jars in the final > package. Instructions are also on salsa and discussion happens in > #debian-android-tools and m

Bootstrapping Kotlin from scratch

2021-04-02 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Hi all, I've attempted a different approach for bootstrapping Kotlin and I'd like to share with you the result. For the reminder, Kotlin is extremely difficult to build from sources because it is written itself in Kotlin and its build system is based on Gradle which also depends on Kotlin, that's

Re: Bootstrapping Kotlin from scratch

2021-04-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Instead of starting with a relatively recent release of Kotlin and a > binary bootstrap compiler and standard library that are subsequently > rebuilt, I tried to start further back in time with a release that > doesn't depend on Kotlin and then build up