Re: [edk2-devel] Building EDK2 code on arm64 (aarch64) - BaseTools fails

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

Yes. No test on FreeBSD. If possible, can you contribute the patch to fix this issue on FreeBSD? 

Thanks
Liming
>-----Original Message-----
>From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of
>Laszlo Ersek
>Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:31 AM
>To: devel@edk2.groups.io; rebecca@bluestop.org
>Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Building EDK2 code on arm64 (aarch64) - BaseTools
>fails
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>On 04/10/19 06:57, Rebecca Cran via Groups.Io wrote:
>> Is there any expectation that EDK2 will build on non-x86 systems?
>
>Yes. It should certainly build on aarch64 (Linux at least).
>
>>
>> I tried building BaseTools (from git master,
>> ae2fb9ead47b5abaf2a4e815b5f57c8f4838b221) using GCC 8.2 on a SoftIron
>> OverDrive 1000 (running FreeBSD) but there are lots of errors, such as:
>
>The issue here must be "FreeBSD". That's not supported as a build host
>OS, to my knowledge.
>
>I assume the build platform check in the BaseTools makefiles / scripts
>fail due to FreeBSD.
>
>edk2 platforms are otherwise regularly built on aarch64 Linux.
>
>Thanks
>Laszlo
>
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>> gcc  -c  -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I
>> ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/Arm/
>> -MD -fshort-wchar -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Werror
>> -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-restrict
>> -Wno-unused-result -nostdlib -g -O2  BasePeCoff.c -o BasePeCoff.o
>> BasePeCoff.c: In function 'PeCoffLoaderGetPeHeader':
>> BasePeCoff.c:120:49: error: cast from pointer to integer of different
>> size [-Werror=pointer-to-int-cast]
>>    *PeHdr = (EFI_IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER_UNION *)
>> ((UINTN)ImageContext->Handle + ImageContext->PeCoffHeaderOffset);
>>                                                  ^
>> BasePeCoff.c:120:12: error: cast to pointer from integer of different
>> size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>>    *PeHdr = (EFI_IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER_UNION *)
>> ((UINTN)ImageContext->Handle + ImageContext->PeCoffHeaderOffset);
>>             ^
>> BasePeCoff.c: In function 'PeCoffLoaderImageAddress':
>> BasePeCoff.c:551:10: error: cast to pointer from integer of different
>> size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
>>    return (UINT8 *) ((UINTN) ImageContext->ImageAddress + Address);
>>           ^
>>
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