KSP doesn't accept typealiases of @Inject, @HiltViewModel etc. annotations and no code is generated
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I am raising an issue here to raise attention of this issue. The bug currently makes it impossible to have a typealias of the @Inject annotation to enable multiplatform support for example and there are probably many more usecases where the behaviour I am going to describe breaks things.
There is an [issue](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-62179/KMPKAPT-KSP-Kotlin-1.9-doesnt-recognize-multiplatform-alias-for-Inject) in the Kotlin issue tracker that provides more context but this is the gist of it. It isn't currently possible to create a ViewModel like this and have it injected by Dagger Hilt:
```kotlin
typealias MyHiltViewModel = dagger.hilt.android.lifecycle.HiltViewModel
typealias MyInject = javax.inject.Inject
@MyHiltViewModel
class ExampleViewModel @MyInject constructor() : ViewModel() {
}
```
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