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How can I run a rust program (from a zip from GitHub) be run on iOS? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 14 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

You can't.

Mobile application require strange wrappings and packagings to run native code like that.

On android you could potentially use termux and build from source for aarch64, but iOS doesn't have anything like that.

Furthermore, iOS is very locked down, so running some random source from GitHub is essentially impossible without proper developer tools and a mac to run them.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    I wonder if i can run it with a-shell, its a terminal/linux app for ios i use for downloading videos

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I think things still need to be compiled specifically for a-shell, you can't just run a random binary. Also iOS is more closely related to BSD, so Linux apps wouldn't work anyway.

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