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

["Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>]

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

> 
> 
> 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);
>           ^
> 
>