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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:17:27 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:17:27 +0000 |
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diff --git a/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/BaseTools/ReadMe.rst b/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/BaseTools/ReadMe.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea0cf364 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/BaseTools/ReadMe.rst @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +This directory contains the EDK II build tools and template files. +Templates are located in the Conf directory, while the tools executables for +Microsoft Windows Operating Systems are located in the Bin\\Win32 directory, other +directory contains tools source. + +Build step to generate the binary tools +--------------------------------------- + +Windows/Visual Studio Notes +=========================== + +To build the BaseTools, you should run the standard vsvars32.bat script +from your preferred Visual Studio installation or you can run get_vsvars.bat +to use latest automatically detected version. + +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.rst is located.) + +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 install build-essential uuid-dev |