So I recently made a Parking Lot CLI program (the kind of ones you make for low-level system design interview questions). You can check the following terminal recording.

The interesting thing is, it is made using Kotlin Multiplatform, which means it can be compiled to the following formats

• Native Windows .exe executable (via mingw)

• Native MacOS executable

• Native Linux binary

• .jar file for running on JVM

• .js file that can be run using NodeJS

And they way I have set it up on Github, on every tag, it releases all these binaries.

So how does that work, you'll ask? Here's how.

Compilation Steps

1. JavaScript

jobs:
  build_js:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Set up JDK 17
        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
        with:
          java-version: '17'
          distribution: 'microsoft'
      - name: Build with Gradle
        uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
        with:
          gradle-version: current
          arguments: compileProductionExecutableKotlinJs
      - name: Tar Artifact
        run: tar -czf ParkingLot-LLD-Kotlin-MPP.nodejs.tgz build/js/packages/ParkingLot-LLD-Kotlin-MPP
      - name: Upload JS Build
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: js-build
          path: ParkingLot-LLD-Kotlin-MPP.nodejs.tgz

2. JVM

  build_jvm:
    ...
    steps:
      ...
      - name: Build with Gradle
        with:
          arguments: assembleDist # java distribution
      - name: Upload JVM Build
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: jvm-build
          path: build/distributions/ParkingLot-LLD-Kotlin-MPP-*.zip # this is the path where it is created

3. MacOS

  build_macos:
    runs-on: macos-latest # build this on a Mac
    steps:
      ...
      - name: Build with Gradle
        with:
          arguments: macosX64Binaries # to build mac binary
      - name: Upload MacOS Build
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: macos-build
          path: build/bin/macosX64/releaseExecutable/ParkingLot-LLD-Kotlin-MPP.kexe

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Similarly Windows and Linux are done too. You can check the entire workflow here