Hello everyone, I wanted to try making a mod using Kotlin, but Forgelin is completely trash: I couldn't get it to work on the latest Minecraft version.

 

Instead I opted to include the full Kotlin runtime in my Jar using johnregelman's shadow Gradle plugin (relocating it to com.my.package.embedded.kotlin so it doesn't conflict with any other mod doing the same thing)

 

I tried including it using the ContainedDeps manifest attribute (and yes, I put the Jars in META-INF/libraries), but it did not work, so this was my only option

Edited July 20, 20196 yr by Alex Sim

I found this Forgelin rewrite for 1.13.2+: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kottle

It will hopefully do the trick 

On 8/17/2019 at 10:52 PM, rdvdev2 said:

I found this Forgelin rewrite for 1.13.2+: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kottle

It will hopefully do the trick 

Thank you, but I just don't see why a minecraft-version-dependant framework is needed when Kotlin actually does work out of the box, the only extra step needed is adding the @JvmStatic annotation alongside @SubscribeEvent in static event handler's methods

I think this is a better approach because forge doesn't have the kotlin runtime or standard library. Without a language provider like kottle every mod would have to shadow these libraries, so it's a better practice to have one mod to carry this libraries to avoid redundancy. This also allows the kotlin libs to update independently 

7 minutes ago, rdvdev2 said:

I think this is a better approach because forge doesn't have the kotlin runtime or standard library. Without a language provider like kottle every mod would have to shadow these libraries, so it's a better practice to have one mod to carry this libraries to avoid redundancy. This also allows the kotlin libs to update independently 

Yeah, but what I'm saying is this mod doesn't have to be minecraft-version dependant (but it currently is) so using it would mean I depend on it to be updated for updating my mod, while I don't have to worry about that if I shadow the Kotlin runtime

Edited August 23, 20196 yr by Alex Sim