How should an inline function on a Kotlin class be imported - kotlin

Question

There is a kotlin file in a project dependency jar (called, for example, KotlinClass) with an inline function
package io.pack
inline fun <T> every(){
///does stuff
}
If I import it into a Java class as a static:
import static io.pack.KotlinClass.every;
The import is recognised.
If I import it into a Kotlin class:
import io.pack.every
or (this ought not to work anyway, but tried for completeness) as
import io.pack.KotlinClass.every
It is not recognised.
(Note: If I create my own Kotlin file with an inline function, then that can be imported into a Kotlin class with no problem. The problem is when importing from a specific project dependency.)
What might be stopping the import of this function into a kotlin class?

Answer 1

It works for me. I create a Kotlin module with a file called TopLevelStandalone.kt:
package io.pack
inline fun every(){
print("Inline")
}
fun normalFun() {
print("Normal")
}
The jar this project builds into contains the class file, and a META-INF/top-level-standalone.kotlin_module containing:
io.packTopLevelStandaloneKt
I then create another Kotline module, manually adding the jar to its dependencies. I'm now able to call every or normalFun:
import io.pack.every
import io.pack.normalFun
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
every()
normalFun()
}