Re: Newbie: Getting Ovmf built

[stephano <stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>]

Hey Peter,

We're still using GCC5 for most of our testing. Try building with that 
release:

apt install gcc-5

Then in Conf/target.txt:
TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = GCC5

Cheers,
Stephano

On 11/24/2018 9:23 AM, Peter Wiehe wrote:
> OK
> 
> Building went well to a certain point. I successfully git cloned. I
> built the BaseTools.
> 
> I (seemingly successfully) setup the build shell environment. (I got no errors.)
> 
> In the target conf file I chose "IA32 X64" and ELFGCC (since I habe
> gcc 7.3.0 installed).
> When I type "build", there comes an error like "Command build not found".
> 
> I thought that maybe it's because of the shell environment variable
> $PATH. $PATH does NOT contain the edk2 source directory in any way
> (despite the fact that I entered "export EDK_TOOLS_PATH...").
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Greetings
> Peter
> 
> 2018-11-24 1:40 GMT+01:00, stephano <stephano.cetola@linux.intel.com>:
>> Hello Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for giving EDK2 a try!
>>
>> We have a set of simple instructions for folks building on standard
>> Linux distros. Please have a look at this page:
>>
>> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Common-instructions
>>
>> Note: Be sure the TARGET_ARCH is set correctly. (E.g. TARGET_ARCH = x64)
>>
>> Once you have built the BaseTools and MdeModulePkg without any errors,
>> you can try building and running in OVMF:
>>
>> https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/How-to-build-OVMF
>>
>> Tip: Add the -j option so that you can grep through the log easily for
>> any errors (build -j /path/to/log/file.txt).
>>
>> Hopefully those links help get you started. Let me know if you run into
>> any other issues.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stephano
>>
>> Stephano Cetola
>> TianoCore Community Manager
>>
>> On 11/23/2018 2:44 PM, Peter Wiehe wrote:
>>> Hello, I'm a total newbie to Tianocore/EDK2/OVMF.
>>> (My coding is at high school level I think, not university level. I
>>> have some (small) experience writing in Assembler, C, C++. I wrote a
>>> little bootloader, so I know something about filesystem in general and
>>> ext2 and pre-kernel "environment".)
>>>
>>> I use xubuntu 18.04 on an AMD 64bit PC.
>>>
>>> I'm currently trying to
>>> 1.) build OVMF from source
>>> 2.) and then want to run it in/with Qemu.
>>> 3.) Later I would like to try to write a simple ext2 "driver". Can't
>>> guarantee I will succeed, but let's see.
>>>
>>> So far I have
>>> 1.) downloaded the whole edk2 zip/tar-ball
>>> 2.) have installed nasm and ASL (iasl)
>>> 3.) Run "EmulatorPkg/build.sh"
>>> 4.) Run "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64"
>>> 5.) Run "OvmfPkg/build.sh -a X64 qemu"
>>>
>>> Then I get the error message "qemu-system-x86_64: -pflash
>>> /home/peter/Schreibtisch/edk2-master/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC5/QEMU/bios.bin:
>>> Could not open
>>> '/home/peter/Schreibtisch/edk2-master/Build/OvmfX64/DEBUG_GCC5/QEMU/bios.bin':
>>> No such file or directory"
>>>
>>> So my first question is how to deal with this error.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Peter Wiehe
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>>
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