Can not install on Android via Termux: `target 'aarch64-linux-android' not found in channel`

[peepo5]

Problem

When trying to install rustup using the linux command on the rustup site, when proceeding with install it gives me the following error:

Current installation options:


   default host triple: aarch64-linux-android
     default toolchain: stable (default)
               profile: default
  modify PATH variable: yes

1) Proceed with installation (default)
2) Customize installation
3) Cancel installation
>1

info: profile set to 'default'
info: default host triple is aarch64-linux-android
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-aarch64-linux-android'
info: latest update on 2021-09-09, rust version 1.55.0 (c8dfcfe04 2021-09-06)
error: target 'aarch64-linux-android' not found in channel.  Perhaps check https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.html for available targets

Steps

1. Use termux
2. Install rustup using site command
3. You get this error

Extra Info
I tried to install the package rust from the termux package repositories, but it was a too old version for the application I wanted to run. After trying to install rustup using the linux command this is where the problem started.

[kinnison]

Unless I am very much mistaken, aarch64-linux-android is a std-only tier two platform - this means that it's available only for cross-compilation, not as a host platform. Are you trying to install on 64bit android?

[peepo5]

yes

[kinnison]

Then I'm afraid you're going to struggle. Perhaps this target was demoted, because clearly we built a rustup for it; but the platform support list suggests that it's not supported as a host platform. Is this your only development system? Android isn't a typical host platform for doing development.

[peepo5]

No I do not want to do development, I just want to install a crate. Termux has rust in its repos but it is an old version and all I want to do is install a newer version of rust for android to run a crate.

[peepo5]

@kinnison

[kinnison]

I'd look to your upstream for that software and ask them to make a new release; or else use a non-android system such as Linux or Windows to cross-compile the software for android if I were you. Android really isn't a good platform to be running compilers etc. in my opinion.

[peepo5]

Alright. I know android is not ideal but it what most people use for a mobile system. I will ask the package maintainers for a new version soon.

[its-localhost]

Same issue with me

[Dawimpy]

Same problem

[camposcristian]

Any fixes?

[rodrigogs]

Is it possible to use rust in termux?