From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 27 12:45:02 2024
(Ktor is a relative new Kotlin web framework)
Ktor (at least all recent versions) require Java 11 and VMS is still
on Java 8 (Itanium and x86-64, Java 17 for VMS x86-64 is expected
later this fall).
But Ktor can be made run on Java 8 and on VMS. This is the
recipe to do that.
It is not that difficult. Kotlin works with Java 8 and all
the libraries except logback works with Java 8. So it is only
a matter of fixing logback.
The model is build on PC and transfer to VMS (default Ktor
build tool is Gradle and I don't think that will run on VMS).
Latest and greatest Ktor 3.0.0.
Steps:
1) build with Java 8 instead of the 11/17/21 you most
likely have as default - one way is to edit
gradle.properties and add a
org.gradle.java.home=/path/to/java/8 before
build
2) unzip the fatjar whatever-all.jar in a scratch
directory
3) unzip class files only from logback-core-1.3.14.jar
and logback-classic-1.3.14.jar in scratch directory
4) zip scratch directory to new jar file (important to
use ZIP not JAR as we need the old manifest)
Then the new jar file can be moved to VMS and run.
Note that I have only tested with basic routing and thymeleaf
plugins - some other plugins may also require Java 11.