tuntox on termux

[piotrcurious]

Hi.
I try to build it on termux.
toxcore and libsodium got installed with few acrobatics.

now i get error from tuntox :
~/tuntox $ make CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
GEN gitversion.h
CC cJSON.o
CC client.o
CC gitversion.o
CC log.o
CC main.o
main.c:647:37: warning: passing arguments to 'handle_pong_frame' without a prototype is deprecated in all versions of C and is not supported in C23 [-Wdeprecated-non-prototype]
647 | return handle_pong_frame(frame);
| ^
1 warning generated.
CC tox_bootstrap_json.o
CC util.o
Package toxcore was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `toxcore.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'toxcore' found
cc -o tuntox cJSON.o client.o gitversion.o log.o main.o tox_bootstrap_json.o util.o -lpthread -g -pthread -lm -static -lrt
ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lpthread
ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lm
ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lrt
ld.lld: error: unable to find library -lc
cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [Makefile:45: tuntox] Error 1

Which is of course because android/termux use different libc and pthreads implementation.

Perhaps you have any idea how to work around that?

[piotrcurious]

I used Claude to help me working around, and created limp "howto" on the process :
https://github.com/piotrcurious/tuntox_on_termux/tree/main

The process eventually succeeds, binary compiles and appears to be working (connects ok, not tested everything yet).

Would be great if this would be somehow integrated

[gjedeer]

I'll definitely merge your Makefile-related PR but this project is not using autoconf/automake as a choice. I apreciate the effort though.

I've packaged it for Debian and FreeBSD (not in repos though) and at no point I regretted not having autoconf. Out of curiosity I asked Claude to create a Termux package for a Makefile-only program and it generated a script without any issues, I did not try it though, lack of time now.