/termux-makepkg

Build packages for Termux in Termux itself.

Primary LanguageShell

Termux package builder

This is a tool for building *.deb packages for Termux on your Android device. It is similar to build-package.sh script from termux-packages or makepkg tool from Arch Linux.

How it works

Script termux-makepkg searches file 'MANIFEST' in current directory and executes steps defined in it. This file is a just a Bash script and usually it looks like shown here:

#!/bin/sh
PACKAGE_MAINTAINER="Leonid Plyushch <leonid.plyushch@gmail.com> @xeffyr"

PACKAGE_NAME="bc"
PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION="Arbitrary precision numeric processing language"
PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/"
PACKAGE_VERSION="1.07.1"
PACKAGE_DEPENDS="readline"
PACKAGE_BUILD_DEPENDS="ed, flex, readline-dev, texinfo"

PACKAGE_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
--infodir=${TERMUX_PREFIX}/share/info
--mandir=${TERMUX_PREFIX}/share/man
--with-readline
"

PACKAGE_SOURCES=("https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/bc/bc-${PACKAGE_VERSION}.tar.gz")
PACKAGE_SOURCES_SHA256=('62adfca89b0a1c0164c2cdca59ca210c1d44c3ffc46daf9931cf4942664cb02a')


post_package() {
    rm -f "${PACKAGE_INSTALL_DIR}/${TERMUX_PREFIX}/share/info/dir"
}

More examples you can find in ./packages directory of this repository. You can also use command makepkg --new package-name to create a new pakage with dummy manifest file which is properly documented.

You can watch a terminal session recored with asciinema to see termux-makepkg in process:

asciicast

How to install

Just download script termux-makepkg and put it to ${PREFIX}/bin/makepkg then do chmod 700 ${PREFIX}/bin/makepkg. Tool will automatically install needed dependencies (such as coreutils or clang) on first run.

You can also install it as package from my termux-extra-packages repository.