Re: Trying to build OVMF fails

["Gao, Liming" <liming.gao@intel.com>]

On linux build failure, it may be related to the wrong config files. 

Please type ". edksetup.sh --reconfig" to update config file, and try again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Gao, Liming
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:07 PM
> To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; apianti@aol.com
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: Re: [edk2] Trying to build OVMF fails
> 
> VS build requires to install WINSDK. VS2013 requires WINSDK8. This path c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x64\rc.exe is
> from the installed WINSDK8.
> When you installs visual studio, you can select winsdk and install it together VS compiler.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of Laszlo Ersek
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 10:43 PM
> > To: apianti@aol.com
> > Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> > Subject: Re: [edk2] Trying to build OVMF fails
> >
> > On 05/10/18 15:37, apianti@aol.com wrote:
> > > I am having a problem building OVMF to use as firmware for QEMU to test EFI binaries. I can only build the X64 arch of OVMF in
> linux.
> > In windows both IA32, IA32/X64, and X64 all fail with some variation of this error:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Vc\bin\x86_amd64\cl.exe"
> >
> /Fod:\development\edk2\Build\OvmfX64\RELEASE_VS2013x86\X64\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\EhciDxe\EhciDxe\OUTPUT\.\EhciUrb.obj
> > /nologo /c /WX /GS- /W4 /Gs32768 /D UNICODE /O1b2s /GL /Gy /FIAutoGen.h /EHs-c- /GR- /GF /Gw /D MDEPKG_NDEBUG /D
> > DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES /Id:\development\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\EhciDxe
> > /Id:\development\edk2\Build\OvmfX64\RELEASE_VS2013x86\X64\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\EhciDxe\EhciDxe\DEBUG
> > /Id:\development\edk2\MdePkg  /Id:\development\edk2\MdePkg\Include  /Id:\development\edk2\MdePkg\Include\X64
> > /Id:\development\edk2\MdeModulePkg  /Id:\development\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Include
> > d:\development\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\EhciDxe\EhciUrb.c
> > > 'c:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> > > operable program or batch file.
> > > NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\bin\x64\rc.exe' : return code '0x1'
> > > Stop.
> >
> > Sorry, I can't comment on the VS toolchains (I don't use them).
> >
> > > And in linux IA32 and IA32/X64 fail with some varation of this error:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "GenFw" -e DXE_DRIVER -o
> >
> /home/development/Desktop/edk2/Build/OvmfIa32/RELEASE_GCC5/IA32/MdeModulePkg/Universal/FaultTolerantWriteDxe/FaultTole
> > rantWriteDxe/DEBUG/FaultTolerantWriteDxe.efi
> >
> /home/development/Desktop/edk2/Build/OvmfIa32/RELEASE_GCC5/IA32/MdeModulePkg/Universal/FaultTolerantWriteDxe/FaultTole
> > rantWriteDxe/DEBUG/FaultTolerantWriteDxe.dll
> > > GenFw: ERROR 3000: Invalid
> > >
> >
> /home/development/Desktop/edk2/Build/OvmfIa32/RELEASE_GCC5/IA32/MdeModulePkg/Universal/FaultTolerantWriteDxe/FaultTole
> > rantWriteDxe/DEBUG/FaultTolerantWriteDxe.dll unsupported ELF EM_386 relocation 0xa.
> > > GenFw: ERROR 3000: Invalid
> > >
> >
> /home/development/Desktop/edk2/Build/OvmfIa32/RELEASE_GCC5/IA32/MdeModulePkg/Universal/FaultTolerantWriteDxe/FaultTole
> > rantWriteDxe/DEBUG/FaultTolerantWriteDxe.dll unsupported ELF EM_386 relocation 0x9.
> >
> > Interesting; what gcc version are you using with the GCC5 toolchain?
> > I've just built OVMF like this:
> >
> > $ build \
> >   -a IA32 \
> >   -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc \
> >   -D SMM_REQUIRE \
> >   -D SECURE_BOOT_ENABLE \
> >   -t GCC5 \
> >   -n 4 \
> >   -b RELEASE \
> >   -D HTTP_BOOT_ENABLE \
> >   --cmd-len=65536 \
> >   --hash
> >
> > with an up-to-date Fedora 28 install:
> > - gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
> > - binutils-2.29.1-23.fc28.x86_64
> >
> > > How can I get the IA32 build working? Also I see ARM and AARCH64 OVMF images in packages, how are these being built? I get that
> > the architectures are unsupported.
> >
> > Do you mean that "distro packages are unsupported by upstream edk2"?
> > Edk2 does support ARM and AARCH64.
> >
> > It is true that the OvmfPkg DSC files target only IA32, IA32X64, and
> > X64, but the ArmVirtPkg DSC files target ARM and AARCH64 QEMU and Xen
> > virtual machines. You can build ArmVirtPkg platforms with
> > cross-compilers from x86_64, or natively on AARCH64 at the least (I've
> > never tried native building on ARM).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Laszlo
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