Is there a Rust build for aarch64-linux-android?

Question

Recently I got a new smartphone with fairly beefy specs, so wanting to play around with Rust on the go I installed Termux and tried to rustup-init. However, this fails:

info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-aarch64-linux-android'
info: latest update on 2017-08-31, rust version 1.20.0 (f3d6973f4 2017-08-27)
error: target not found: 'aarch64-linux-android'

Is there another way to get a Rust environment on android?

Mireyamiriam

Answer 1

Sadly rustup won't work on android.

You can manage to install cargo and rustc using Termux.

Also if you have rustup already installed, rm .cargo will remove the stub (which otherwise interferes with calling cargo or rustc).

Threw

Can you check the path of the rustc binary, it seems you still have a conflict with rustup. On my phone, the path is /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/rustc – Asper

That was it! Thank you! – Mireyamiriam

This is very outdated... It's Pointless removed rustc, it's now in the main Repository. The Unstable Termux repository was deleted, and rustc-nightly is disabled due to an LLVM 12 incompatibility. You can still get Rustc-dev, but many packages will only build with experimental rustc-nightly features – Rilke

Answer 2

There is a rust package available via pkg install rust. It contains Cargo and appears to install packages successfully.

The package source is here: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packages/rust

Just a note: I had a binary failing to build during installation via Cargo due to libsqlite3-sys intermediate. This was solved by installing binutils package, which adds the archiver (ar) aarch64-linux-android-ar. The ecosystem is not flawless yet.

Mandrake

Answer 3

or you can use rustup directly in termux. guide. all rust related tools and frameworks will work too after patching them.

Shallow

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