audk/BaseTools
Ard Biesheuvel 64a910f3da BaseTools: AArch64: use explicit linker scripts
Instead of relying on the builtin linker script of GNU ld, which
may vary based on binutils version (which is not tightly coupled to
the GCC version) and linker command line options, introduce a linker
script for AArch64 to be used by all GCC/binutils versions.

The script is laid out such that two ELF sections .text and .data are
created that map onto the PE/COFF with the same names. By aligning
.data to the minimum alignment of .text, and by not adding any
additional padding -which is what LD's builtin linker script does- the
relative offset between .text and .data is retained after the PE/COFF
conversion. This should prevent problems with debuggers and other
tooling that are ELF based.

Also provided is an overlay linker script that increases the alignment
of .text and .data to 64 KB. This is intended for DXE_RUNTIME_DRIVER
modules, to make them compatible with the newly introduced
Properties Table feature.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Olivier Martin <Olivier.Martin@arm.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@17824 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
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Conf BaseTools: AArch64: use explicit linker scripts 2015-07-06 15:57:50 +00:00
Scripts BaseTools: AArch64: use explicit linker scripts 2015-07-06 15:57:50 +00:00
Source BaseTools/Build: Fix the range expression evaluation error. 2015-07-06 00:55:15 +00:00
Tests BaseTools/Tests: Verify supported UTF-8 data is allowed 2015-06-23 23:34:43 +00:00
UserManuals
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.gitignore BaseTools: Ignore BaseTools/Bin/Win32 directory in .gitignore 2015-04-17 07:40:44 +00:00
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BuildNotes.txt
Contributions.txt */Contributions.txt: Update example email address 2015-02-03 17:29:14 +00:00
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License.txt
Makefile
ReadMe.txt
building-gcc.txt
get_vsvars.bat
toolsetup.bat

ReadMe.txt

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This directory contains the next generation of EDK II build tools and template files.
Templates are located in the Conf directory, while the tools executables for
Microsoft Windows 32-bit Operating Systems are located in the Bin\Win32 directory, other 
directory contatins tools source.

1. Build step to generate the binary tools.

=== Windows/Visual Studio Notes ===

To build the BaseTools, you should run the standard vsvars32.bat script.

In addition to this, you should set the following environment variables:

 * EDK_TOOLS_PATH - Path to the BaseTools sub directory under the edk2 tree
 * BASE_TOOLS_PATH - The directory where the BaseTools source is located.
   (It is the same directory where this README.txt is located.)
 * PYTHON_FREEZER_PATH - Path to where the python freezer tool is installed

After this, you can run the toolsetup.bat file, which is in the same
directory as this file.  It should setup the remainder of the environment,
and build the tools if necessary.

Please also refer to the 'BuildNotes.txt' file for more information on
building under Windows.

=== Unix-like operating systems ===

To build on Unix-like operating systems, you only need to type 'make' in
the base directory of the project.

=== Ubuntu Notes ===

On Ubuntu, the following command should install all the necessary build
packages to build all the C BaseTools:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential uuid-dev

=== Python sqlite3 module ===
On Windows, the cx_freeze will not copy the sqlite3.dll to the frozen 
binary directory (the same directory as build.exe and GenFds.exe). 
Please copy it manually from <PythonHome>\DLLs.

The Python distributed with most recent Linux will have sqlite3 module
built in. If not, please install sqlit3 package separately.

26-OCT-2011