Building Zola for Android

2024-07-29

This page is built using Zola, a static site generator. At the time of this writing there are no official builds or packages that can be used in Termux on Android. Rust and Cargo exists as packages in Termux, so one option would be to build it directly on the mobile, but for some reason Termux kept closing/crashing (probably oom killer or similar), so here's how to cross compile it on a beefier machine. The steps are for Arch Linux.

Steps

Get the code for Zola, e.g.:

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/getzola/zola.git

Install android-sdk from AUR using your favorite method.

Install cargo ndk:

# pacman -S cargo-ndk

Install the correct target platform for Rust, e.g.,

$ rustup target add aarch64-linux-android

Build! The path to android-ndk need to be specified for cargo ndk to find it.

$ ANDROID_NDK_HOME=/opt/android-ndk/ cargo ndk -t aarch64-linux-android build --release

Now you should have a binary in target/<platform>/release/zola that should work in Termux. Good luck!