openide/plugins/kotlin/docs/cooperative-development/environment-setup.md

Cooperative Development Environment Setup

Repositories

• kotlin repository. Default branch is master
• intellij repository. Default branch is kt-master. kt-master can be compiled against the latest Kotlin compiler from master.

Setup

1. Clone kotlin repository. Kotlin repository contains Analysis API and Kotlin compiler
2. Set up kotlin repository. See kotlin/readme for more info. But generally, it should be enough to add this line to the local.properties file inside kotlin repository

kotlin.build.isObsoleteJdkOverrideEnabled=true

3. Clone IntelliJ Ultimate/IntelliJ Community (this repository) with branch kt-master into kotlin repository directory, so directory structure is the following:

kotlin [branch = master]
├── intellij [branch = kt-master]
│   └── ...
└── ...

4. Build compiler for IDE: run Kotlin Coop: Publish compiler-for-ide JARs run configuration in intellij repository. This configuration will compile Analysis API and related compilers and put them into jars. Those jars are used to build intellij. You should execute this task every time you update the code inside kotlin repository.