Hi Andrew, This is a regression against BaseTools. Same observation was seen with CLANGPDB toolchain. Steven Shi reopened 3359 to address this regression: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3359 The patch I provided fixed CLANGPDB and I expect it to also fix XCODE5. Mike From: Andrew Fish Sent: Sunday, May 2, 2021 1:20 PM To: edk2-devel-groups-io ; rebecca@bsdio.com Cc: Kinney, Michael D ; Laszlo Ersek Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] Error building OVMF on x86 macOS with Xcode 12.5 Rebecca, I don’t think `-z` is a valid argument to ld64 (macOS linker). My guess is XCODE is inheriting a GCC flag from a platform DSC file. $ git grep "z common-page-size" -- *.dsc OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc:89: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32.dsc:97: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc:93: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgIa32X64.dsc:101: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc:93: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgX64.dsc:101: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc:84: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 OvmfPkg/OvmfXen.dsc:92: GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 StandaloneMmPkg/StandaloneMmPkg.dsc:116:GCC:*_*_*_DLINK_FLAGS = -z common-page-size=0x1000 -march=armv8-a+nofp -mstrict-align Thanks, Andrew Fish On May 2, 2021, at 12:06 PM, Rebecca Cran > wrote: It doesn't seem to apply against 1e6b0394d6c001802dc454ecff19076aaa80f51c (master as of today): patching file BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/ModuleAutoGenHelper.py Hunk #1 FAILED at 181. Hunk #2 FAILED at 632. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/ModuleAutoGenHelper.py.rej patching file BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/PlatformAutoGen.py Hunk #1 FAILED at 1391. Hunk #2 FAILED at 1534. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file BaseTools/Source/Python/AutoGen/PlatformAutoGen.py.rej patching file BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py Hunk #1 FAILED at 897. Hunk #2 FAILED at 930. 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file BaseTools/Source/Python/build/build.py.rej -- Rebecca Cran On 5/2/21 12:04 PM, Kinney, Michael D wrote: Please try this patch: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/74684 If it works, can you please also do a review? Many community members are offline this week and I want to get these fixes in. Mike -----Original Message----- From: devel@edk2.groups.io > On Behalf Of Rebecca Cran Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 9:05 PM To: devel@edk2.groups.io; Andrew Fish >; Laszlo Ersek > Subject: [edk2-devel] Error building OVMF on x86 macOS with Xcode 12.5 I'm trying to build OVMF on an x86 Mac running Big Sur and Xcode 12.5. If I run "./OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 -t XCODE5 -b RELEASE" it seems to get quite far, but then tries to run ld with "-z common-page-size", causing the error: "ld" -arch x86_64 -u __ModuleEntryPoint -e __ModuleEntryPoint -preload -segalign 0x20 -pie -all_load -dead_strip -seg1addr 0x240 -map /Users/bcran/src/edk2/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_XCODE5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Universal/MonotonicCounterRuntimeDxe/MonotonicCounterR untimeDxe/DEBUG/MonotonicCounterRuntimeDxe.map -z common-page-size=0x1000 -seg1addr 0x1000 -segalign 0x1000 -o /Users/bcran/src/edk2/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_XCODE5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Universal/MonotonicCounterRuntimeDxe/MonotonicCounterR untimeDxe/DEBUG/MonotonicCounterRuntimeDxe.dll -filelist /Users/bcran/src/edk2/Build/OvmfX64/RELEASE_XCODE5/X64/MdeModulePkg/Universal/MonotonicCounterRuntimeDxe/MonotonicCounterR untimeDxe/OUTPUT/static_library_files.lst Building ... /Users/bcran/src/edk2/UefiCpuPkg/CpuMpPei/CpuMpPei.inf [X64] make: Nothing to be done for `tbuild'. ld: unknown option: -z -- Rebecca Cran