Termux support

[Indithem]

I tried running the binary on termux, but it doesn't run at all i.e., not even show the help message

Step to reproduce:

1. Use termux on some android device (maybe which device matters?)
2. Install sendme by using curl -fsSL https://iroh.computer/sendme.sh | sh
3. run any command like ./sendme or ./sendme --help
4. Get the following error

"$(pwd)/sendme" has unexpected e_type:2

where $(pwd) is the present working directory, something like /data/data/com.termux/files/home

[madhu102938]

sendme works for me, but I cannot send any files.

[dignifiedquire]

"$(pwd)/sendme" has unexpected e_type:2

apparently tmux doesn't support staticly linked binaries? at least in some cases ziglang/zig#14146 (comment)

We need to statically compile, to keep support for other platforms, so not sure how to solve this one

[Jisu-Woniu]

I tried to run cargo install sendme directly, and got the following error:

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: could not find `Clipboard` in `platform`
  --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:79:38
   |
79 |         Ok(Clipboard { platform: platform::Clipboard::new()? })
   |                                            ^^^^^^^^^ could not find `Clipboard` in `platform`

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: could not find `Clear` in `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:159:31
    |
159 |         Clear { platform: platform::Clear::new(&mut self.platform) }
    |                                     ^^^^^ could not find `Clear` in `platform`

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: could not find `Get` in `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:164:29
    |
164 |         Get { platform: platform::Get::new(&mut self.platform) }
    |                                   ^^^ could not find `Get` in `platform`

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: could not find `Set` in `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:169:29
    |
169 |         Set { platform: platform::Set::new(&mut self.platform) }
    |                                   ^^^ could not find `Set` in `platform`

error[E0412]: cannot find type `Clipboard` in module `platform`
  --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:68:33
   |
68 |     pub(crate) platform: platform::Clipboard,
   |                                    ^^^^^^^^^ not found in `platform`

error[E0412]: cannot find type `Get` in module `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:176:33
    |
176 |     pub(crate) platform: platform::Get<'clipboard>,
    |                                    ^^^ not found in `platform`

error[E0412]: cannot find type `Set` in module `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:210:33
    |
210 |     pub(crate) platform: platform::Set<'clipboard>,
    |                                    ^^^ not found in `platform`

error[E0412]: cannot find type `Clear` in module `platform`
   --> /data/data/com.termux/files/home/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/arboard-3.6.0/src/lib.rs:251:33
    |
251 |     pub(crate) platform: platform::Clear<'clipboard>,
    |                                    ^^^^^ not found in `platform`

Some errors have detailed explanations: E0412, E0433.
For more information about an error, try `rustc --explain E0412`.
error: could not compile `arboard` (lib) due to 8 previous errors

Seems arboard doesn't compile on Termux. What is the arboard crate for? Is it possible to compile without arboard?

Reference: 1Password/arboard#113

[flub]

It is currently not possible to compile without arboard. But it is not a core feature, just some nice experience a user contributed. It could be made optional in the code if you'd like to contribute that.

[Jisu-Woniu]

Tried that in my fork: https://github.com/Jisu-Woniu/sendme-termux. You can try with:

cargo install --git https://github.com/Jisu-Woniu/sendme-termux

If you want to install it with clipboard support, add --features clipboard to it.

[Jisu-Woniu]

OSC 52 seems to be a perfect fit for sendme's use case, even better than arboard.

https://docs.rs/copypasta-ext/latest/copypasta_ext/osc52/

On "copy", the clipboard is handled by the terminal, so a sendme running in an SSH shell will copy the text to the SSH client instead of server.

More importantly, it only requires a single print!:

https://docs.rs/copypasta-ext/latest/src/copypasta_ext/osc52.rs.html#97-104

And it works in Termux too!

[flub]

Can this be closed now that #91 is merged?

[Indithem]

Publish this package to the termux's package manager.

[flub]

Publish this package to the termux's package manager.

Realistically we're unlikely to do this with our current capacity. We don't manage any external repositories. If people want to see this happen however they could do so themselves, it would be nice to make it clear that it is not maintained by upstream in that case though. In any case, that would be a separate issue I think. It seems to me this one is about compiling on it?

[flub]

Oh right, it was about expecting the install script to just work... Hum. I'm cautiously going to say that we're also unlikely to do so. It is a fairly niche platform after all. I think if you're able to compile from source that's already great.

So I'm going to close this for now. If someone wants to submit building the binaries for it on github CI and integrate everything then maybe it would happen.

[Jisu-Woniu]

Given that the compilation can finish without errors on Termux natively (with cargo install --git), I am confident the binary can be compiled in Termux official container too.