audk/BaseTools
Yonghong Zhu 36d083ef00 BaseTools: add support for BIOS build with binary cache
Add three new options:
--hash enables hash-based caching during build process. when --hash is
enabled, build tool will base on the module hash value to do the
incremental build, without --hash, build tool will base on the
timestamp to do the incremental build. --hash option use md5 method to
get every hash value, DSC/FDF, tools_def.txt, build_rule.txt and build
command are calculated as global hash value, Package DEC and its
include header files are calculated as package hash value, Module
source files and its INF file are calculated as module hash value.
Library hash value will combine the global hash value and its dependent
package hash value. Driver hash value will combine the global hash
value, its dependent package hash value and its linked library hash
value.
When --hash and --binary-destination are specified, build tool will
copy generated binary files for each module into the directory specified
by binary-destination at the build phase. Binary-destination directory
caches all generated binary files.
When --hash and --binary-source are specified, build tool will try to
get the binary files from the binary source directory at the build
phase.If the cached binary has the same hash value, it will be directly
used. Otherwise, build tool will compile the source files and generate
the binary files.

Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
2017-09-27 17:14:54 +08:00
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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
from your preferred Visual Studio installation or you can run get_vsvars.bat
to use latest automatically detected version.

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