Hello

I am trying to setup a windows build system with MSVS2017 or MSVS2022, but I keep running into the same issue over and over, and I can't seem to figure it out.

I followed several guides on how to get everything working, but also, I can't build MdeModulePkg, which on linux was nowhere near this difficult.

In any case, here is what I have so far.

From a regular command prompt, I setup my paths for NASM_Prefix (Version 2.15), WORKSPACE, PACKAGE_PATHS and EDK_TOOLS_PATH

I run edk2setup.bat, which gives warnings about CLANG_BIN and CYGWIN_HOME, I ignore those, and then I run build.

(Python is 3.9.4)

target.txt is switched to TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = VS2017 and TARGET_ARCH= X64

This is what I always hit, no matter how many variations of the above I try including python venvs etc.

Building ... c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\SmmLockBoxLib\SmmLockBoxPeiLib.inf [X64]
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl.exe" /Foc:\users\ma
ciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\BaseLib\OUTPUT\X64\ /showIncludes /nologo /c /WX /GS- /W4 /Gs3276
8 /D UNICODE /O1b2s /GL /Gy /FIAutoGen.h /EHs-c- /GR- /GF /Z7 /Gw /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\X64 /Ic:\users\mac
iej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\BaseLib\DEBUG
/Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Test\UnitTest\Includ
e /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Include\X64 @c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\Bas
eLib\OUTPUT\cc_resp_56.txt
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl
.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
PeCoffExtraActionLib.c
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl.exe" /Foc:\users\ma
ciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi\OUTPUT\.\
/showIncludes /nologo /c /WX /GS- /W4 /Gs32768 /D UNICODE /O1b2s /GL /Gy /FIAutoGen.h /EHs-c- /GR- /GF /Z7 /Gw /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\e
dk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library
\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi\DEBUG /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg
\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Test\UnitTest\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Include\X64 /Ic:\users\maciej\ue
fi\edk2\MdeModulePkg /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\BrotliCustomDec
ompressLib\brotli\c\include c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi\PlatformHookLibSerialPortPpi.c
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl.exe" /Foc:\users\ma
ciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library\VarCheckPolicyLib\VarCheckPolicyLibStandaloneMm\OUTPUT\.\ /showIncl
udes /nologo /c /WX /GS- /W4 /Gs32768 /D UNICODE /O1b2s /GL /Gy /FIAutoGen.h /EHs-c- /GR- /GF /Z7 /Gw /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeMod
ulePkg\Library\VarCheckPolicyLib /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library\VarCheckPolicyLib\Va
rCheckPolicyLibStandaloneMm\DEBUG /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uef
i\edk2\MdePkg\Test\UnitTest\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdePkg\Include\X64 /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg /Ic:\user
s\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Include /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\BrotliCustomDecompressLib\brotli\c\include /I
c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\StandaloneMmPkg /Ic:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\StandaloneMmPkg\Include @c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModul
e\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library\VarCheckPolicyLib\VarCheckPolicyLibStandaloneMm\OUTPUT\cc_resp_1.txt

build.py...
: error 7000: Failed to execute command
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x86\nmake.exe /nologo tbuil
d [c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdeModulePkg\Library\BrotliCustomDecompressLib\BrotliCustomDecompressLib]

build.py...
: error 7000: Failed to execute command
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x86\nmake.exe /nologo tbuil
d [c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\Build\MdeModule\DEBUG_VS2017\X64\MdePkg\Library\BaseLib\BaseLib]

build.py...
: error F002: Failed to build module
c:\users\maciej\uefi\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Library\BrotliCustomDecompressLib\BrotliCustomDecompressLib.inf [X64, VS2017, DEBUG]

- Failed -
Build end time: 13:55:06, Jun.16 2022
Build total time: 00:00:13

I am not sure what this error is:

NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x64\cl
.exe"' : return code '0x2'

I tried tracking it down, but I'm just not familiar enough with edk2 build env to sort it all out.

I would really appreciate some help as I'm totally stuck with this.

Thank you