diff --git a/packages/zig/build.sh b/packages/zig/build.sh
index 488d86ad1453105..a922cb1ea060d49 100644
--- a/packages/zig/build.sh
+++ b/packages/zig/build.sh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE_FILE="zig/LICENSE"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="0.13.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/ziglang/zig/releases/download/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/zig-bootstrap-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=cd446c084b5da7bc42e8ad9b4e1c910a957f2bf3f82bcc02888102cd0827c139
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
diff --git a/packages/zig/lib-std-zig-system.zig.patch b/packages/zig/lib-std-zig-system.zig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000000..764e10b2a0bd109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/zig/lib-std-zig-system.zig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/lib/std/zig/system.zig b/lib/std/zig/system.zig
+index 83c798c34..8eebdb857 100644
+--- a/zig/lib/std/zig/system.zig
++++ b/zig/lib/std/zig/system.zig
+@@ -988,7 +988,9 @@ fn detectAbiAndDynamicLinker(
+         // if it finds one, then instead of using /usr/bin/env as the ELF file to examine, it uses the file it references instead,
+         // doing the same logic recursively in case it finds another shebang line.
+ 
+-        var file_name: []const u8 = switch (os.tag) {
++        var file_name: []const u8 = if (os.tag.isAndroid())
++            "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/bin/env"
++        else switch (os.tag) {
+             // Since /usr/bin/env is hard-coded into the shebang line of many portable scripts, it's a
+             // reasonably reliable path to start with.
+             else => "/usr/bin/env",