[Package]: VSCode / VSCodium

[dariotarantini]

Package description

VSCode is a powerful code editor available on ARM / ARM64. It can be installed under a proot enviroment, but it would be nice to have directly inside termux repo

Home page URL

https://code.visualstudio.com

Source code URL

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Packaging policy acknowledgement

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Additional information

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[thunder-coding]

VS Code port would require first patching Electron to work under Termux. And patching Electron means we also need to patch Chromium. Both Chromium and Electron take a very high amount of time to build even on CI. While compiling nodejs, V8 takes more than an hour so wonder how much time Chromium will take. And even then if you manage to get Chromium, Electron and VS Code working on Termux. Keeping it maintained is not gonna be that easy. So I feel maintainers may not accept this package 🙂

And anyways did you try out code-server, it allows you to use VS Code in your browser

Installation:

apt install nodejs-lts yarn
yarn global add code-server

Note: nodejs-lts is required instead of nodejs because code-server only supports 14.x of node for now.

[dariotarantini]

@thunder-coding yep, i know it. But i think that it will be awesome to port Electron on termux, thanks to all.app developed with it. I just hope that someone will start working on it. also, thanks, i already knew code-server but i will still use prooted distro with vscode

[Maxython]

The idea is cool but difficult. I will try to compile vscode via makepkg.

[Maxython]

To compile vscode need packages that are not in termux.
I'll take care of adding them to termux.

[thunder-coding]

To compile vscode need packages that are not in termux.

Give here a list of them, and I will see them

[Maxython]

At the moment, here is the list.

• [X] keytar
• [ ] electron
  • [ ] playwright
    • [ ] chromium
      • [x] nss
      • [ ] libva

Those that are not checked are not installed on termux.

[Maxython]

PS: electron is not installed due to a problem with playwright.

[thunder-coding]

PS: electron is not installed due to a problem with playwright.

Can you open up a draft PR so that I can see what's in the log

[Maxython]

The result of the playwright compilation:

[thunder-coding]

The result of the playwright compilation:

Should be fixed by patching but first someone needs to add Chromium to x11-repo

[Maxython]

The result of the playwright compilation:

Should be fixed by patching but first someone needs to add Chromium to x11-repo

This is exactly what I am doing.

[Maxython]

The result of compiling chromium according to the advice from the developers:

[thunder-coding]

The result of compiling chromium according to the advice from the developers:

You need to fetch the source code using depot_tools' gclient https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code

[tathastu871]

use proot distro to install vscode. Andronix created distros have it

[Tsnow95]

VS Code port would require first patching Electron to work under Termux. And patching Electron means we also need to patch Chromium. Both Chromium and Electron take a very high amount of time to build even on CI. While compiling nodejs, V8 takes more than an hour so wonder how much time Chromium will take. And even then if you manage to get Chromium, Electron and VS Code working on Termux. Keeping it maintained is not gonna be that easy. So I feel maintainers may not accept this package 🙂

And anyways did you try out code-server, it allows you to use VS Code in your browser

Installation:

apt install nodejs-lts yarn
yarn global add code-server

Note: nodejs-lts is required instead of nodejs because code-server only supports 14.x of node for now.

error [email protected]: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "= 14". Got "17.3.0"

Do you know a way to install previous version or am I stuck outta luck?

[fromyb]

is there any update?

[ddkwork]

any info?

[licy183]

Added electron (just the launcher) in https://github.com/termux-user-repository/tur/commit/1a2c9b19c5d39fa7e721fbf32f86bd61505aa80b. Hope that will help.

[licy183]

Added in https://github.com/termux-user-repository/tur/commit/091aaf938540b9735f475884c9bd57851925baf1. It downloads pre-built electron binaries from https://github.com/termux-user-repository/electron-tur-builder. I wonder if it is acceptable to add this to the main repository.

[PillFall]

I do not know if this would be off-topic, but with vscode.dev is not easier to compile only VSCode CLI (which is written in Rust) and connect to VSCode.dev via tunnel?

I tried for some time now, and the only package that show errors (some can be patched easily) is keyring. However, I believe the remaining errors are shown because Termux does not have any secret-service, as far as I know.