Installation

Add the Kotbase dependency to your Kotlin Multiplatform project in the commonMain source set dependencies of your shared module's build.gradle.kts:

Enterprise EditionCommunity Edition

build.gradle.kts

kotlin {
    sourceSets {
        commonMain.dependencies {
            implementation("dev.kotbase:couchbase-lite-ee:3.1.9-1.1.1")
        }
    }
}

build.gradle.kts

kotlin {
    sourceSets {
        commonMain.dependencies {
            implementation("dev.kotbase:couchbase-lite:3.1.9-1.1.1")
        }
    }
}

Note

The Couchbase Lite Community Edition is free and open source. The Enterprise Edition is free for development and testing, but requires a license from Couchbase for production use. See Community vs Enterprise Edition.

Kotbase is published to Maven Central. The Couchbase Lite Enterprise Edition dependency additionally requires the Couchbase Maven repository.

Enterprise EditionCommunity Edition

build.gradle.kts

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven("https://mobile.maven.couchbase.com/maven2/dev/")
}

build.gradle.kts

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

Native Platforms

Native platform targets should additionally link to the Couchbase Lite dependency native binary. See Supported Platforms for more details.

Linux

Targeting JVM running on Linux or native Linux, both require a specific version of the libicu dependency. (You will see an error such as libLiteCore.so: libicuuc.so.71: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory indicating the expected version.) If the required version isn't available from your distribution's package manager, you can download it from GitHub.