edk2/BaseTools
Ard Biesheuvel 5d38a20196 BaseTools/tools_def: Use LLD to link ACPI table binaries
Currently, the CLANGDWARF toolchain on AARCH64 fails to pass the
-fuse-ld=lld compiler option, and so linking ACPI table binaries falls
back to the BFD linker. On non-AARCH64 build systems, this will
correctly run the cross-linker, based on the -target argument passed to
Clang, which therefore needs to be installed.

However, the ASLCC invocation fails to pass that same -target argument,
therefore producing object files for the native architecture, which the
cross-linker cannot link, resulting in a build error.

So pass the target in ASLCC_FLAGS as well, which is sufficient to get a
working build. And for good measure, pass -fuse-ld=lld so that we don't
rely on the BFD cross-linker in the first place.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2025-11-25 17:20:46 +00:00
..
Bin BaseTools: Remove ARM32 Support 2025-09-25 22:04:10 +00:00
BinWrappers BaseTools: Add FMMT Python Tool 2022-05-06 04:22:21 +00:00
Conf BaseTools/tools_def: Use LLD to link ACPI table binaries 2025-11-25 17:20:46 +00:00
Plugin BaseTools/Plugin/HostBasedUnitTestRunner: Add CLANG support 2025-09-28 23:38:21 +00:00
Scripts BaseTools/Scripts: KEEP .prmexportdescriptor data sections 2025-10-17 06:23:17 +00:00
Source BaseTools: Enhance FMMT rebase feature with FFS type check 2025-11-23 23:30:49 +00:00
Tests BaseTools: Add support for mingw-w64 2025-06-07 17:56:04 +00:00
UserManuals BaseTools: Remove DXE_SAL_DRIVER 2025-10-30 10:00:32 +00:00
.gitignore BaseTools: Adding cross compilation of BaseTool for Windows ARM/ARM64 2024-12-20 22:57:04 +00:00
basetools_calling_path_env.yaml BaseTools: Add YAML files with path env and tool extdeps 2019-11-11 13:01:53 -08:00
basetools_path_env.yaml BaseTools: Add YAML files with path env and tool extdeps 2019-11-11 13:01:53 -08:00
BuildEnv BaseTools: Remove Pip BaseTools 2024-09-10 00:41:53 +00:00
Edk2ToolsBuild.py BaseTools: Remove ARM32 Support 2025-09-25 22:04:10 +00:00
get_vsvars.bat BaseTools: Remove VS2008-VS2013 remnants 2023-05-05 11:41:35 +00:00
GNUmakefile BaseTools: Replace BSD License with BSD+Patent License 2019-04-09 09:10:20 -07:00
Makefile BaseTools: Add support for mingw-w64 2025-06-07 17:56:04 +00:00
ReadMe.rst BaseTools: Add reference to new build instructions 2022-12-16 22:17:18 +00:00
set_vsprefix_envs.bat BaseTools/toolsetup.bat: Set IASL_PREFIX when using Mingw-w64 on Windows 2025-07-10 00:45:13 +00:00
toolsetup.bat BaseTools/toolsetup.bat: Set IASL_PREFIX when using Mingw-w64 on Windows 2025-07-10 00:45:13 +00:00

::

  Note: New build instructions are available. It is recommended to start with
  the new instructions if learning how to build edk2 and/or BaseTools for the
  first time. This page is retained for reference.

New instructions: `Build Instructions`_

.. _`Build Instructions`: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Build-Instructions

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.

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