[Feat]: code-server Termux tar.gz build

[babaric-dev]

What is your suggestion?

Generate a tar.gz build for Termux

Why do you want this feature?

The installation of code-server on Android requires downloading a huge load of dependencies (i.e. build-essential, yarn, etc.). It is not that convenient. So, I think a build for Termux should be added to the releases (much like the currently available .tar.gz build for Linux).

Please add this feature. It will make the installation 10 times easier + better.

[babaric-dev]

Is there any update on this feature request? I am looking forward to seeing that feature being implemented.

[jsjoeio]

This could be nice. I'm not sure how difficult or how we'd actually do it though. Do you have any suggestions?

[babaric-dev]

Only two of the files are compiled executables - ./lib/node and ./lib/coder-cloud-agent. We could just compile it for Termux.

Again, I am not sure how hard it is.

[jsjoeio]

Is that it? That doesn't sound terribly difficult...

Only thing I'd want though is to be able to add it as part of our platform steps in build.yaml and run integration tests in a Termux or Termux-like environment.

@code-asher any thoughts?

[babaric-dev]

Is that it?

That may be all, or only one part (sorry I am quite a noob, so idk).

[code-asher]

I think it is a good idea; I started looking into this briefly a while back but I did not get very far so I do not know how difficult it is to compile for Termux.

[babaric-dev]

Any updates on implementing this feature?

[jsjoeio]

I don't think we have bandwidth to look into this. The biggest question still stands:

how difficult it is to compile for Termux.

feel free to research and share what you learn!

[babaric-dev]

Apparently, this is already available through tur-repo.

To install, run:

pkg install tur-repo
pkg install code-server

We may add this to the documentation.

Btw, the code-oss package is also available in tur-repo too.

IMO this is already fixed because I found a way to install code-server without installing nodejs beforehand.

[jsjoeio]

This is already in the docs: https://coder.com/docs/code-server/latest/termux#install