BlackBox Component Builder for Windows, GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD

Tested on:

• Windows XP, 7, 10, 11
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS
• Alt Education 9.1
• Debian 9.3, 9.4 Xfce/Mate/GNOME/Cinnamon
• Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon
• FreeBSD 12.1
• OpenBSD 6.8
• CentOS 8
• Arch Linux 4.9.6, Manjaro Linux 18.0.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.3
• Fedora Core 17

Download: https://blackbox.oberon.org/download

Directories structure:

BlackBox/
	universal development environment for Component Pascal programming language
BlackBox/_*
	platform-specific files

dev/
	files for continuous integration system & technical notes for framework developers

examples/
	append/  - append string to .odc file
	encoder/ - encoding subsystems by StdCoder from the command line
	server/  - static web-server

Prepare BlackBox from repository on Windows:

copy _Windows_, _Windows_GUI and __GUI content to the BlackBox directory
remove other directories starting with "_"
run build.bat

Installation of required packages in Debian-based systems:

For Alt Education 9.1

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver / Linux Mint 19.X:

	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 gnome-themes-extra:i386

Linux Mint 20 has no package 'gnome-themes-extra:i386', it can be safly ignored. There will be warning in console.

Debian 9.X GNOME/Xfce/KDE

	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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS i386:

	sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-murrine libcanberra-gtk-module gnome-icon-theme-full

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS amd64:

	sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 gnome-icon-theme-full


Arch-based systems amd64:

	sudo pacman -S multilib/lib32-gtk2

In OpenBSD use 'wxallowed' flag in mount options for the partition to start BlackBox from.

To build BlackBox:

cd BlackBox
./switch-target `uname -s` GUI
./build

To run BlackBox (after build):

./run-BlackBox

for Linux version also you can run

./blackbox

To create BlackBox framework assembly (after build):

./export <outputDirectory>

To clean the BlackBox folder:

./switch-target none
./clean

Example: build, create framework assembly and run BlackBox from it:

cd BlackBox
./switch-target `uname -s` GUI
./build
./export ../`uname -s`_GUI
./switch-target none
./clean
cd ../`uname -s`_GUI
./run-BlackBox

Authors:

• Oberon microsystems AG
• BlackBox Framework Center
• Alexander V. Shiryaev
• Igor A. Dehtyarenko
• Ivan A. Denisov
• Anton A. Dmitriev
• Boris V. Rumshin