BlackBox Component Builder cross-platform

Supported operating systems

List of supported operating systems:

• Windows
• GNU/Linux (amd64, i386)
• OpenBSD (i386)
• FreeBSD (amd64, i386)
• NetBSD (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 7.8 (i386)
• FreeBSD 14.3 (amd64, i386)
• NetBSD 10.1 (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 distributions (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)

doas pkg_add libiconv gtk+2

FreeBSD (i386)

pkg install gtk2

FreeBSD (amd64)

You need the i386 GTK2 libraries.

They can be installed via an jail.

To create an i386 jail, follow the official FreeBSD Handbook.

Don't forget to change the download link from amd64 to i386 when fetching the base system.

Inside the jail:

pkg install gtk2

Then, specify the path to these labraries before running the BlackBox GUI:

export LD_32_LIBRARY_PATH=<jail path>/usr/local/lib

Replace <jail path> with the path to your jail root (for example, /usr/jails/containers/i386).

NetBSD (i386)

pkg_add gtk2+

Build

Build GNU/Linux version

./build-linux

Build OpenBSD version

./build-openbsd

Build FreeBSD version

./build-freebsd

Build NetBSD version

./build-netbsd

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

Install dependencies

Debian-based distributions

sudo apt install pax

Arch-based distributions

sudo pacman -S pax

Fedora

sudo dnf install pax

Install

GNU/Linux

./export-linux <outputDirectory>

OpenBSD

./export-openbsd <outputDirectory>

FreeBSD

./export-freebsd <outputDirectory>

NetBSD

./export-netbsd <outputDirectory>

Windows

./export-windows <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:

mkdir -p ~/bin && 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:

mkdir -p ~/bin && ln -s $(readlink -f run-BlackBoxInterp) ~/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