freenix-github

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

Tested on:

• Windows XP, 7, 10
• OpenBSD 6.6
• Fedora Core 17
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS
• Debian 9.3, 9.4 Xfce/Mate/GNOME/Cinnamon
• Linux Mint 19.1/19.2/19.3 Cinnamon
• CentOS 8
• Arch Linux 4.9.6, Manjaro Linux 18.0.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.3
• FreeBSD 11.0

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:

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

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

Installation of required packages in Arch-based systems:

64-bit version:

    sudo pacman -S multilib/lib32-gtk2

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 assembly (after build):

./export <outputDirectory>

To clean the BlackBox folder:

./switch-target none
./clean

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

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