diff --git a/packages/sqlcipher/build.sh b/packages/sqlcipher/build.sh
index 342d408d90..4c01661522 100644
--- a/packages/sqlcipher/build.sh
+++ b/packages/sqlcipher/build.sh
@@ -2,20 +2,42 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="SQLCipher is an SQLite extension that provides 256 bit AES encryption of database files"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="4.6.1"
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/archive/v$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d8f9afcbc2f4b55e316ca4ada4425daf3d0b4aab25f45e11a802ae422b9f53a3
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION="4.12.0"
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL="https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/archive/v$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.gz"
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=151a1c618c7ae175dfd0f862a8d52e8abd4c5808d548072290e8656032bb0f12
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libedit, openssl"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="tcl"
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_TAG_TYPE="newest-tag"
+# --enable-editline --disable-readline
+# prevents
+# error: 'regparm' is not valid on this platform
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
---enable-tempstore=yes
---with-tcl=${TERMUX_PREFIX}/lib
-TCLLIBDIR=${TERMUX_PREFIX}/lib/tcl8.6/sqlite
+--with-tempstore=yes
+--enable-editline
+--disable-readline
+--with-tcl=${TERMUX__PREFIX__LIB_DIR}
+TCLLIBDIR=${TERMUX__PREFIX__LIB_DIR}/tcl8.6/sqlite
 "
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
-	CPPFLAGS+=" -DSQLCIPHER_OMIT_LOG_DEVICE -DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC"
+	# CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS as directed by README.md
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -DSQLCIPHER_OMIT_LOG_DEVICE"
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC"
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -DSQLITE_EXTRA_INIT=sqlcipher_extra_init"
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -DSQLITE_EXTRA_SHUTDOWN=sqlcipher_extra_shutdown"
+	LDFLAGS+=" -lcrypto"
+}
+
+# See: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/23268#issuecomment-2685308408
+# (some packages do not accept '--rpath' or '--rpath-hack' configure arguments)
+# Error: Unknown option --rpath-hack
+termux_step_configure() {
+	"$TERMUX_PKG_SRCDIR"/configure \
+		--prefix="$TERMUX_PREFIX" \
+		--libexecdir="$TERMUX_PREFIX/libexec" \
+		--libdir="$TERMUX__PREFIX__LIB_DIR" \
+		--includedir="$TERMUX__PREFIX__INCLUDE_DIR" \
+		--sbindir="$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin" \
+		$TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS
 }