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Toolpacks was (now archived) the old repo where majority of static binaries' build scripts were hosted.
It was archived on 2025-01-01 as part of , you can read more at History & Lore
Android Support was deprecated on (Toolpacks)
Android is .
Android has
Android binaries without significant efforts & manual patching for each & every binary. This is not Automatable.
only ever provided Tools/Pkgs (Only for arm64-v8a) that personally used to use but which weren't already available in or broken.
already , Check the . There's also a near-complete list of all packages officially available on Termux:
Check 's project , if you still don't want to use Termux.
Windows Support was deprecated on (Toolpacks)
It has some of the same issues, Android has, i.e. can't be fully statically linked.
If you would like to see additional build targets prioritized, donating a Dedicated Build Server would be the optimal encouragement.
Note: 32-Bit Binaries will likely never be Supported/Added since that's now ancient and even embedded devices now ship with 64-Bit ARCH
All of the projects listed above, served as inspirations at one point, so we thank the authors of these projects from the deepest of our hearts. PkgForge wouldn't exist without their work.
Windows is centralized & thus benefits from central App Stores like the &
There already exist , which is a pretty & mature wrapper around , , , , , , and
We would like to build binaries for other architectures like , and the , however our time & especially RESOURCES are limited.
This, at the time of writing is, the of downloadable (without requiring compilation) & up-to-date available on the public web.
More > than all of these COMBINED: , , , , , , ,
used to be , a long time ago in another life. He often had to set up pentesting environments on remote Servers, at that time there used to be , which installed a bunch of tools (often installing go/rust just to install the tools), this made the setup time awfully slow & frustrated him.
Eventually, ~ July, 2023, he would start modifying the setup scripts, as well as maintaining some homegrown scripts by himself. In the best of case, it was simply a wrapper around , to just fetch a precompiled binary from GitHub. In the worst of cases, it was installing go/rust toolchains, same as reconftw was doing just to install the tools. So he started creating repos on GitHub to build & release these binaries using GH's CI, and then using eget to pull them. The number of repos grew, and it was harder and harder to maintain each, thus (The precursor to all our works) was created to centralize them all. You can find all the several iterations this repository went through over the years, on the . Toolpacks was eventually archived on 2025-01-01 as part of .
recommends reading these articles if you need a technical justification:
& 's both are distros specifically using only Static Binaries. Check their project page to learn Why.
And then we have things like & , they are very different from a Static Binary POV, but their rationale for doing so applies to why Static Binaries must exist.
A special mention to who reached out to , and created the very first Package manager ~ . Sadly, was archived on May 26, 2024.
Another mention to who created a package manager in sh called , which later turned into the Golang , which again turned into .
Seeing all these efforts, and some encouragements on , approached and received it's first commit on . One thing led to another, and the Organization came into being on Nov 4, 2024 to do everything officially and have more control over the direction of all our projects.