BlackBox Component Builder cross-platform

Supported operating systems

List of supported operating systems:

• Windows
• GNU/Linux (amd64, i386)
• OpenBSD (i386)
• FreeBSD (i386)

Tested on:

• Windows XP, 7, 10, 11
• GNU/Linux:
  • Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04 LTS
  • Debian 9.3, 9.4, 10.4 (Xfce/Mate/GNOME/Cinnamon)
  • Linux Mint 19.1/19.2/19.3/20 (Cinnamon)
  • Fedora 31
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.3
  • CentOS 8
  • Arch Linux 4.9.6
  • Manjaro Linux 18.0.4, 21.2.0
  • Alt Education 9.1
• OpenBSD 7.2 (i386)
• FreeBSD 12.1, 13.0, 13.2 (i386)

Packages

Packages available here

Build

Install dependencies

Ubuntu 20/22 LTS, Mint 20/22 (amd64)

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386

Debian 9/10 (amd64)

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 libatk-adaptor:i386 libgail-common:i386 gnome-themes-standard:i386

Arch-based systems (amd64)

sudo pacman -S multilib/lib32-gtk2
sudo pacman -Rc lib32-librsvg

Fedora (amd64)

sudo dnf install gtk2.i686 gtk2-devel.i686

Alt Education 9.1 (amd64)

apt-get install i586-libgtk+2-devel.32bit

OpenBSD (i386)

Use 'wxallowed' flag in mount options for the partition to build or start BlackBox from.

Build

Build GNU/Linux version

./build-linux

Build OpenBSD version

./build-openbsd

Build FreeBSD version

./build-freebsd

Build Windows version

./build-windows

On Windows, these commands can be run from MSYS2

There is also a build-windows.bat script that can be used to build the Windows version from Windows or Wine

Install

./export <outputDirectory>

Run

BlackBox Component Builder (GUI)

On Windows

Run tiled version:

BlackBox.exe

Run MDI version:

BlackBoxMDI.exe

On other operating systems

./run-BlackBox

Symbolic link to this script can be created to run from any directory:

ln -s `readlink -f run-BlackBox` ~/bin/blackbox

And then BlackBox Component Builder (GUI) can be run with blackbox command from anywhere. The current directory will be used as a BlackBox secondary directory.

BlackBox Component Builder (command line interpreter)

On Windows

BlackBoxInterp.exe

On other operating systems

./run-BlackBoxInterp

Symbolic link to this script can be created to run from any directory:

ln -s `readlink -f run-BlackBox` ~/bin/blackbox-cli

And then BlackBox Component Builder (command line interpreter) can be run with blackbox-cli command from anywhere. The current directory will be used as a BlackBox secondary directory.

Authors

• Oberon microsystems AG
• BlackBox Framework Center
• OberonCore
• Ivan Denisov
• Igor Dehtyarenko
• Anton Dmitriev
• Alexander Shiryaev
• Ketmar Dark