audk/BaseTools
Ard Biesheuvel 26ecc55c02 BaseTools IA32/X64: prevent .eh_frame sections from being generated
After the recent GNU linker script changes, the following warning is
emitted many times during the OVMF build:

BFD: <...>: warning: Empty loadable segment detected, is this intentional ?

This is caused by the fact that, now that the section layout has changed
somewhat, the .eh_frame section is assigned an ELF segment of its own,
which ends up with no contents at all after we strip the .eh_frame
section from the output. (Note that the program headers that contain the
segment information are completely irrelevant to us since the PE/COFF
conversion does not rely on them.)

Since we only retain the .eh_frame data for external debugging, and not
for things like stack unwinding or generating backtraces at runtime, we
can remedy the situation by passing -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables on
the GCC command line. This option instructs the compiler to emit the
unwind data into a debug section called .debug_frame instead of into
.eh_frame.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Build-tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@18217 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524
2015-08-13 06:02:00 +00:00
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Bin CodeModule: BaseTools - Adding the svn:external to the https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-toolbinaries/code/trunk/Win32 2014-07-25 14:07:00 +00:00
BinWrappers/PosixLike BaseTools: Fix BinWrappers LzmaF86Compress Script 2015-07-10 02:51:38 +00:00
Conf BaseTools IA32/X64: prevent .eh_frame sections from being generated 2015-08-13 06:02:00 +00:00
Scripts BaseTools IA32/X64: Use GccBase.lds instead of gcc*-ld-script 2015-08-03 08:23:59 +00:00
Source BaseTools: add ARCH detection for AARCH64 and ARM 2015-08-12 05:22:49 +00:00
Tests BaseTools/Tests: Verify supported UTF-8 data is allowed 2015-06-23 23:34:43 +00:00
UserManuals Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2610) into EDKII BaseTools. 2013-11-18 07:41:21 +00:00
gcc Sync BaseTools Branch (version r2321) to EDKII main trunk. 2011-09-18 12:17:25 +00:00
.gitignore BaseTools: Ignore BaseTools/Bin/Win32 directory in .gitignore 2015-04-17 07:40:44 +00:00
BuildEnv License header updated to match correct format. 2014-08-28 13:53:34 +00:00
BuildNotes.txt Sync BaseTools Branch (version r2271) to EDKII main trunk. 2011-08-26 07:46:26 +00:00
Contributions.txt */Contributions.txt: Update example email address 2015-02-03 17:29:14 +00:00
GNUmakefile Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2599) into EDKII BaseTools. 2013-08-23 02:18:16 +00:00
License.txt Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2599) into EDKII BaseTools. 2013-08-23 02:18:16 +00:00
Makefile Sync EDKII BaseTools to BaseTools project r1971 2010-05-18 05:04:32 +00:00
ReadMe.txt Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2599) into EDKII BaseTools. 2013-08-23 02:18:16 +00:00
building-gcc.txt Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2649) into EDKII BaseTools. 2014-01-27 05:23:15 +00:00
get_vsvars.bat Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2670) into EDKII BaseTools. 2014-07-01 07:10:10 +00:00
toolsetup.bat Sync BaseTool trunk (version r2670) into EDKII BaseTools. 2014-07-01 07:10:10 +00:00

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