Re: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32

[Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>]

Ok.  May want to clean up the git .readme pages to not tell people to use something that is broken.

K2

-----Original Message-----
From: Gao, Liming <liming.gao@intel.com> 
Sent: Monday, October 8, 2018 6:16 PM
To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>; Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Subject: RE: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32

Yes.  The binary version edk2-BaseTools-win32 doesn't work now. It will not be maintained. 

If you still want to use the binary version BaseTools, you can switch to version dd00d6c9eed34b5b4d3fb0c5a5714ceeaed76165 of edk2-BaseTools-win32. It can work. 

And, I strongly suggest to run BaseTools Python from source in Windows. After you install python27 and set PYTHON_HOME, there is no extra step. 

Thanks
Liming
>-----Original Message-----
>From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of 
>Kurt Kennett
>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2018 11:28 PM
>To: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Subject: Re: [edk2] GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>
>Does this mean that I should expect the Win32 tools to not work any 
>more "out of the box" for building images using GenFds?
>
>K2
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
>Sent: Sunday, October 7, 2018 5:35 PM
>To: Kurt Kennett <Kurt.Kennett@microsoft.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Cc: Zhu, Yonghong <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
>Subject: RE: GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>
>Hi,
>
>We planned to drop the support of BaseTools Python run from the freeze 
>binary in Windows OS 
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>Please run BaseTools Python from source in Windows. Here is the step 
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>Best Regards,
>Zhu Yonghong
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>Kurt Kennett
>Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 4:55 AM
>To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>Subject: [edk2] GenFds broken in latest basetools-win32
>
>"genfds" seems broken in latest tiano-win32
>
>Can anybody else repo this:
>
>C:\repo\tiano-win32>genfds
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File 
>"C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 
>27, in <module>
>  File "GenFds\GenFds.py", line 24, in <module>
>ValueError: Attempted relative import in non-package
>
>K2
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