Getting ready

To be able to perform this recipe, you need a Kotlin compiler installed on your development machine. Every Kotlin release ships with a standalone compiler. You can find the latest release at https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases.

To manually install the compiler, unzip the standalone compiler into a directory and optionally, add the bin directory to the system path. The bin directory contains the scripts needed to compile and run Kotlin on Windows, OS X, and Linux.