Can someone enlighten me on how to call the Google protobuf compiler from the common section of KMP gradle, the error is that it can’t find the .proto files. I just can’t figure out how to set up whatever source set it wants. Is there a working example I can look at? I have this working on Android, I just can’t get it to work on KMP in a common section.
My goal was to use reuse my existing Android Proto Datastore code. After many hours of going in circles with AI chat bots which don’t know what they are talking about, I did some manual research. Turns out that the Google protobuf compiler generates Java code and then wraps it with a thin layer of Kotlin code. And then KMP doesn’t support Java in commonMain, only Kotlin. So the Google solution can’t be used and the AI chat bots were hallucinating non-existent solutions. Next I looked at pbandk. While pbandk does generate pure kotlin code, the code it generates is very different than what Google generates, so I would have to rewrite everything. Since I have to rewrite everything, I think I will switch to Room which is easily portable.