A Linux port of BlackBox Component Builder
A Linux port of BlackBox Component Builder
Initial development of Linux port started in 2001 with reference to BlackBox Component Builder 1.4 for Windows.
The Linux version has been developed on RedHat Linux 7.1, this release uses version 2.4.2-2 of the Linux kernel and Libc. It also comes with Gnome 1.0 installed, which in turn uses version 1.2 of the Gtk, Gdk and GLib libraries.
BlackBox has not been tested on other Linux distributions than RedHat, but it should only depend on the Libc, Gnome, Gtk, Gdk and GLib versions. Any distribution where Gnome is available should work with the BlackBox port.
Subsystem Host is incomplete and requires further development.
The current state of the project:
All in all it was surprisingly easy to port BlackBox to Linux. After just porting some of the most basic modules most frameworks within BlackBox already start working. Only the modules Kernel, HostFiles, HostPorts and HostWindows are needed to display a view. By adding HostMenus already ObxCube runs. And this without any of the mentioned modules being complete.