Re: [edk2-devel] RFC: Updating IA32/X64 cross-compilation to work like other archs

["Rebecca Cran" <rebecca@bsdio.com>]

Thanks, I’ll merge this after the stable tag.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, at 5:45 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 08:21:54PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
>> Cross-compilation to platforms other than IA32 and X64 work by setting an
>> environment variable such as GCC_AARCH64_PREFIX that contains the path/name
>> of the cross-compiler without the "gcc", "objcopy" etc. suffix.
>> 
>> On IA32 and X64 however, the environment variable GCC_BIN has been used
>> instead. With fast AArch64 and other non-x86 platforms now being available,
>> I'd like to propose updating IA32 and X64 to work the same as other
>> platforms by using e.g. GCC_IA32_PREFIX and GCC_X64_PREFIX.
>> 
>> 
>> I've attached a proposed patch: I'm attaching it here to gather feedback
>> before opening a PR since it does change how builds are done and I want to
>> check if it's something people want to proceed with.
>
> I think it'll be nice if edk2 is consistent here, using the same naming
> scheme for all platforms, so I'm in favor of the change.
>
> take care,
>   Gerd
>
>
>
> 


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