I don’t personally have any experience using Cygwin, but I have used the Windows Subsystem for Linux successfully with EDK2 (I actually use it somewhat regularly. It has great integration with VSCode, which doesn’t require Visual Studio at all.)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

- Bret

From: jim slaughter<mailto:jim.slaughter@sage-micro.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:23 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io<mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>; Bret Barkelew<mailto:Bret.Barkelew@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [edk2-devel] EDK2 environment setup

Hello,

Yes my Python is 3.7.

I am trying to use cygwin to access the GNU tools since I do not have VS. We are a small company.
I cannot get the edksetup.bat to execute correctly. It is a problem setting up all the environment.
Is there an easier way? Am I on the right path?

Jim Slaughter
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:07 AM Bret Barkelew via groups.io<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.io%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cbret.barkelew%40microsoft.com%7Cfa385632531740fc184608d7e7a2a308%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637232558018480585&sdata=Z%2FGSZKIolLQuqWlPOLgjf%2F2mYsK8UdtIbXCnB29xxow%3D&reserved=0> <bret.barkelew=microsoft.com@groups.io<mailto:microsoft.com@groups.io>> wrote:
Have you installed the up-to-date Python requirements? “pip install –upgrade -r pip-requirements.txt”?

That’s the first thing I would check. Otherwise, happy to look at the problem with you.

- Bret

From: NAVDEEPPAL_SINGH via groups.io<mailto:NAVDEEPPAL_SINGH=DELL.COM@groups.io>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:05 AM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io<mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [edk2-devel] EDK2 environment setup

I am trying to setup EDK2 environment setup from Tianocore/EDK2.
While doing the Base Tool setup. After running BaseTool/EDK2ToolsBuild.py -t VS2019
Getting following error :-
c:\edk2\BaseTools>python Edk2ToolsBuild.py  -t VS2019
SECTION - Init SDE
SECTION - Loading Plugins
SECTION - Start Invocable Tool
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 177, in <module>
    main()
  File "Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 173, in main
    Edk2ToolsBuild().Invoke()
  File "C:\Program Files\Python38\lib\site-packages\edk2toolext\base_abstract_invocable.py", line 141, in Invoke
    retcode = self.Go()
  File "Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 139, in Go
    raise Exception("Failed to build.")
Exception: Failed to build.

set EDK_TOOLS_PATH=C:\edk2\BaseTools
set EDK_TOOLS_BIN=C:\edk2\BaseTools\Bin\Win32
Can some one help




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Jim Slaughter