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Detect unused imports in Kotlin without IntelliJ?
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maybe you need to play around with the flags, I'm away from pc and can't test, but from the top of my head and a quick search it should be something like that
on arch linux it comes from this package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kotlin/ not sure about other distros
no clue about windows
I got the Kotlin compiler using sdkman, the closest thing to that command I found was: kotlinc -Xreturn-value-checker=full $(find . -name '*.kt')
It doesn't really work, it just gives errors for every single import that comes from a library (libKTX in my case)
My bad, I think the option I mentioned might have existed at some point but doesn't now.
Sadly it's probably a moating strategy for jetbrains to have that as an IDE exclusive feature.
The best you can probably do is trying to dig out that functionality from the android studio source ... https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/base/+/studio-master-dev/studio.md
The debian/ubuntu package for the Kotlin compiler is super outdated, so I'll have to find a way to get it