Termux

[micwoj92]

So there is this terminal emulator/Linux environment for Android and I was just wondering if someone was crazy enough to try to build and use Pale Moon on there.
It's a pretty cool project, I like to play around with it sometimes https://termux.com/

[Moonchild]

So because there's a terminal emulator for Android you think that it will allow you to build a working browser?

[vannilla]

So because there's a terminal emulator for Android you think that it will allow you to build a working browser?

In theory, it is possible due to Termux in particular being able to do some fancy stuff.
In practice, you need to set up Termux (and this is rather complicated) and then have a version of Pale Moon compiled for a specific ARM architecture (or anyway with certain ARM features available.)

[micwoj92]

Well I mean they have build tools, gcc, gtk (I dont remember if 2 or 3), python2, yasm. I haven't checked accurately but I think the only think missing would be autoconf and it should be trivial to install. And there are very powerful phones nowadays so why not. I "only" have 3gb ram so I might try setting up a dev environment and will post screenshots here if it works. or maybe I will just install android x86 on vbox on my pc and try there. I think the only limitation here would be free time but I might be wrong.

[micwoj92]

Pale Moon compiled for a specific ARM architecture (or anyway with certain ARM features available.)

yes I thought of this and using android x86 might be easier because of this reason.