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"Unresolved Reference" when Interop-ing C Library

I am trying to make a militaristic example of reading and executing C code within Kotlin-Native. I am following this article here. However, I'm receiving an "Unresolved Reference" error on the final step. Here are all the files/commands I'm using. My operating system is Windows.

testlib.h

#ifndef MY_TEST_LIB
#define MY_TEST_LIB

int getRandomNumber();

#endif

testlib.c

#include "testlib.h"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int getRandomNumber() {
    return rand();
}

I've compiled these files into a static library named libtestlib.lib. My goal is to call getRandomNumber from within Kotlin Native.

Next I have these kotlin related files:

testlib.def

headers = testlib.h
headerFilter = ./*
compilerOpts = -L. -ltestlib -I.

CLibTest.kt

import testlib.*

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    println(getRandomNumber())
}

Finally, I'm running these two commands. The first to make the klib:

cinterop -def testlib.def -o testlib

And then this last one to create the executable:

konanc CLibTest.kt -library testlib

Everything works great until this last command, where I receive the following error:

CLibTest.kt:4:10: error: unresolved reference: getRandomNumber println(getRandomNumber())

Could someone point out where I went wrong?

Solution

  • The answer is the combination of suggestions from Svyatoslav Scherbina and Mike Sinkovsky.

    The "headerFilter" was incorrect and needed to be removed, and the static library needed to be embedded to the .klib. By setting testlib.def to be:

    headers = testlib.h
compilerOpts = -I.
staticLibraries = libtestlib.lib
libraryPaths = .

    The issue is resolved and the kotlin file complies/runs without issue!