Termux

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Termux

Unread post by micwoj92 » 2021-03-30, 20:19

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/

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Re: Termux

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-03-30, 21:08

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

Unread post by vannilla » 2021-03-30, 22:41

Moonchild wrote:
2021-03-30, 21:08
So because there's a terminal emulator for Android you think that it will allow you to build a working browser? :wtf:
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.)

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Re: Termux

Unread post by micwoj92 » 2021-03-30, 22:43

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.

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Re: Termux

Unread post by micwoj92 » 2021-03-30, 22:45

vannilla wrote:
2021-03-30, 22:41
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.

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