cygwin and blackbox 0.70.1
Here is a step to step guide to get blackbox working with cygwin.
Firstly you should have cygwin and xorg-x11 too. You should check the default xserver works. I.e you should be able to start a xterm. Once you have that we can concentrate on getting blackbox installed.
Download blackbox-0.70.1.tar.bz2
Extract
tar -xvjf blackbox-0.70.1.tar.gz -C /
Edit ~/.xinitrc
and add blackbox to your the file. In my case this is the only line in my file.
blackbox
Edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
defaultserverargs="-multiwindow -clipboard"
to
defaultserverargs="-clipboard"
Fire it up and you should see this
Warning: I had to disable Unicode fonts in blackbox to get it working with cygwin. I have no idea why, but if blackbox tries to use unicode fonts all you get is boxes instead of the correct font renderings.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
“I had to disable Unicode fonts in blackbox to get it working with cygwin”
I feel stupid. How do you do this? I’ve looked everywhere.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I had to change line 161 in lib/Unicode.cc file.
mine now reads
static bool has_unicode = false;
I.e the block looks like this.