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indygreg
Android distribution
As mentioned in the PyOxidizer issue (https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/705) a distribution for Android would be great and I'll try and see if I can get something basic to work.
I would like to use pantsbuild/pants in termux, but pants uses PBS, so I need a PBS build for termux.
What would that take?
For pants, I need python 3.9. eventually that will get bumped to 3.11.
Here are the patches termux applies to python when building it: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packages/python
Several of the patches seem to deal with musl. edit: the patches copy some functions from musl where bionic, the android libc, doesn't support what's needed. So, musl is a red Herring here.
Here is my uname -a:
Linux localhost 4.19.278-g7b0944645172-ab10812814 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 7 05:43:03 UTC 2023 aarch64 Android
So, I guess i would need this triple:
~aarch64-unknown-linux-musl~
~Or maybe~
aarch64-unknown-linux-android28
Possibly with some other patches to use the TERMUX_PREFIX which on my device is: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr
more details:
~ $ echo $HOME
/data/data/com.termux/files/home
~ $ echo $PREFIX
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr
~ $ ls /data/data/com.termux/files
home usr
~ $ ls /data/data/com.termux/files/usr
bin etc include lib libexec share tmp var
The link I posted before was to the primary termux build of python, which right now is 3.11. There are community builds of Python 3.7-3.10, I've included links to the built termux deb files for 3.9 for comparison.
- 3.7 build recipe and patches
- 3.8 build recipe and patches
- 3.9 build recipe and patches
- 3.10 build recipe and patches
It would be very meaningful to provide android support.
- Krita support android app but currently lack of plugin support due to difficulty in packaging python as they mentioned in their forum. Having python on android could potentially make krita-ai-diffusion plugin available.
- I am also personally trying to build tensorflow on Termux which bazel rules_python will download a glibc python and hinder the build process. Having Android support would be very meaningful.
