| This directory contains the next generation of EDK II build tools and template files. | |
| Templates are located in the Conf directory, while the tools executables for | |
| Microsoft Windows 32-bit Operating Systems are located in the Bin\Win32 directory, other | |
| directory contatins tools source. | |
| 1. Build step to generate the binary tools. | |
| === Windows/Visual Studio Notes === | |
| To build the BaseTools, you should run the standard vsvars32.bat script. | |
| In addition to this, you should set the following environment variables: | |
| * EDK_TOOLS_PATH - Path to the BaseTools sub directory under the edk2 tree | |
| * BASE_TOOLS_PATH - The directory where the BaseTools source is located. | |
| (It is the same directory where this README.txt is located.) | |
| * PYTHON_FREEZER_PATH - Path to where the python freezer tool is installed | |
| After this, you can run the toolsetup.bat file, which is in the same | |
| directory as this file. It should setup the remainder of the environment, | |
| and build the tools if necessary. | |
| Please also refer to the 'BuildNotes.txt' file for more information on | |
| building under Windows. | |
| === Unix-like operating systems === | |
| To build on Unix-like operating systems, you only need to type 'make' in | |
| the base directory of the project. | |
| === Ubuntu Notes === | |
| On Ubuntu, the following command should install all the necessary build | |
| packages to build all the C BaseTools: | |
| sudo apt-get install build-essentials uuid-dev | |
| === Python sqlite3 module === | |
| On Windows, the cx_freeze will not copy the sqlite3.dll to the frozen | |
| binary directory (the same directory as build.exe and GenFds.exe). | |
| Please copy it manually from <PythonHome>\DLLs. | |
| The Python distributed with most recent Linux will have sqlite3 module | |
| built in. If not, please install sqlit3 package separately. | |
| 2. The binary tools will be updated only after passing developer testing. | |
| Current state of the tools is Proto-Type - not all tool functions have been implemented | |
| and there may be bugs in these tools. These tools are under constant development at | |
| this time. | |
| 26-OCT-2011 |