diff --git a/packages/silicon/build.sh b/packages/silicon/build.sh
index 22b1990900..b88c6f599a 100644
--- a/packages/silicon/build.sh
+++ b/packages/silicon/build.sh
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Silicon is an alternative to Carbon implemented in Rust"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="Yaksh Bariya <yakshbari4@gmail.com>"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.4.3
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.5.1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/Aloxaf/silicon/archive/refs/tags/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=68d64ade34ac571cf2d092f9a6f124e2c7d0441a91e3ba00ca1c8edcdd008630
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=784a6f99001f2000422b676e637fe83a5dc27f5fc55ad33e227c882ce20e6439
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="fontconfig, freetype, harfbuzz"
 TERMUX_PKG_BLACKLISTED_ARCHES="arm"
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
diff --git a/packages/silicon/src-hb_wrapper.rs.patch b/packages/silicon/src-hb_wrapper.rs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6fde44ee11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/silicon/src-hb_wrapper.rs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+commit 416417bc7574a905865b44c3d7e169b658b278cc
+Author: Yaksh Bariya <yakshbari4@gmail.com>
+Date:   Sat Oct 15 08:36:11 2022 +0530
+
+    fix: do not hardcode string pointer types
+    
+    Some platforms may have different types than '*const i8'
+    
+    For example Android has '*const u8', better just rely on
+    std::os::raw::c_char for the type
+
+diff --git a/src/hb_wrapper.rs b/src/hb_wrapper.rs
+index 771254f..7d3bee0 100644
+--- a/src/hb_wrapper.rs
++++ b/src/hb_wrapper.rs
+@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pub fn feature_from_tag(tag: &str) -> Result<hb_feature_t> {
+         let mut feature = mem::zeroed();
+         ensure!(
+             hb_feature_from_string(
+-                tag.as_ptr() as *const i8,
++                tag.as_ptr() as *const ::std::os::raw::c_char,
+                 tag.len() as i32,
+                 &mut feature as *mut _
+             ) != 0,
+@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ impl HBBuffer {
+         unsafe {
+             hb_buffer_add_utf8(
+                 self.buffer,
+-                s.as_ptr() as *const i8,
++                s.as_ptr() as *const ::std::os::raw::c_char,
+                 s.len() as i32,
+                 0,
+                 s.len() as i32,