Intel(R) Platform Innovation Framework for EFI EFI Development Kit II (EDK II) 2011-12-14 Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Copyright (c) 2007 - 2011, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. EDK II packages can be gathered from the following address: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git The detailed introduction of these packages can be found in each package description file. (The *.dec file under the package directory) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most recent version of the setup instructions is available on the EDK II web-site: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Getting%20Started%20with%20EDK%20II ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quick Start (Windows Development Platform) ----------- In a command prompt window, change to the top-level directory of the EDK II source. Note: The first time the edksetup script is executed, it creates three files in the %WORKSPACE%\Conf directory. The files: tools_def.txt, target.txt and build_rule.txt, are only created if they do not exist, if they exist, they are not touched. First, set up your project workspace. If you have previously initialized this WORKSPACE, and a newer version of the *.template files in WORKSPACE\BaseTools\Conf exists, remove the *.txt files in the WORKSPACE\Conf directory prior to running the edksetup script. For the reference build of the Nt32 Platform emulation environment, use the edksetup.bat option: --nt32. For building other platforms or modules, this option is not required, as Visual Studio standard includes, libraries and/or dlls are not required for normal development. c:\MyWork\edk2\> edksetup --nt32 The default tool chain (named MYTOOLS) is pre-configured to use VS2008 for IA32 and X64 target architectures and DDK3790 for IPF target architectures. To use a different tool chain, either modify the tools_def.txt file's MYTOOLS entries, or modify the %WORKSPACE%\Conf\target.txt file's TOOL_CHAIN_TAG. The pre-defined tags are listed near the top of the %WORKSPACE%\Conf\tools_def.txt file, below the Supported Tool Chains comment. Alternatively, you may use the build command's -t option to specify a different tool chain tag name: build -t VS2008 ... , for example. Using this method will require that you always use the build command's -t option. If you use 64-bit Windows OS, you should use tool chain tag name with x86, such as VS2008x86. Next, go to the module directory and begin to build. This example is for the HelloWorld application. c:\MyWork\edk2\> cd MdeModulePkg\Application\HelloWorld c:\MyWork\edk2\> build If you want to build the a module in another package (for example, MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\BaseLib.inf), please edit the file %WORKSPACE%\Conf\Target.txt first. Change the following line ACTIVE_PLATFORM = MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dsc to ACTIVE_PLATFORM = MdePkg/MdePkg.dsc Then go to MdePkg\Library\BaseLib directory and type build: c:\MyWork\edk2\> cd MdePkg\Library\BaseLib c:\MyWork\edk2\> build If you want build a platform, ACTIVE_PLATFORM must be set to your desired platform dsc file, go to directory which must be not a module's directory, and run "build" command. Instead of changing Target.txt, you can specify platform, module and/or architecture on command line. For example, if you want to build NT32 platform, you can just type c:\MyWork\edk2\> build -p Nt32Pkg\Nt32Pkg.dsc -a IA32 and if you want to build HelloWorld module, you can just type c:\MyWork\edk2\> build -p Nt32Pkg\Nt32Pkg.dsc -a IA32 -m MdeModulePkg\Application\HelloWorld\HelloWorld.inf Other helpful command line options of build tool include "-v" and "-d". The "-v" option is used to turn on the verbose build, which provide more information during the build. "-d " option is used to turn on the debug information which is helpful debugging build tools. For more information on build options, please try "build -h" on command line. Note: The Windows style help option "/?" is not a valid option for the build command. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supported build targets ----------------------- all - Build whole platform or module. It can be ignored. genc - Generate AutoGen.c, AutoGen.h and .depex files only. genmake - Generate makefiles in addition to files generated by "genc" target. clean - Clean intermediate files cleanall - Clean all generated files and directories during build, except the generated Makefile files (top level and module makefiles) cleanlib - Clean all generated files and directories during library build run - Launch NT32 shell (only valid for NT32 platform) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tools in Python --------------- * Run build tool written in Python from source It can be executed from its source directly as long as you have the Python interpreter (version 2.5.4) installed. The source code is located at WORKSPACE/BaseTools. where: build/build.py - The entry tool of build tools "build.py" steps: 1. Run "edksetup.bat" 2. set PYTHONPATH to the local directory of above source (BaseTools/Source/Python) 3. Set ACTIVE_PLATFORM in WORKSPACE\Conf 4. Go to platform or module directory 5. Run " /build/build.py" or "/build/build.py" directly. * Convert Python source to exe file The tools written in Python can be coverted into executable program which can be executed without Python interpreter. One of the conversion tools is called cx_Freeze, available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cx-freeze/ If you have installed cx_Freeze at c:\cx_Freeze-3.0.3. Use the following command lines to convert MyBuild.py to a Windows executable. set PYTHONPATH=\BaseTools\Source\Python c:\cx_Freeze-3.0.3\FreezePython.exe --include-modules=encodings.cp437,encodings.gbk,encodings.utf_16,encodings.utf_8 --install-dir=.\mybuild MyBuild.py The generated .exe files are put in "mybuild" subdirectory.