Re: Newbie: Getting Ovmf built

[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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