This post will explains the steps involved in compiling EmulatorPkg of Tianocore EDK2. Who wish to learn UEFI can use this emulator for writing UEFI samples.
Step 1: Clone git repository from github git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
Step 2: Inside git repo, setup the environment using source edksetup.sh
Step 3: Compile the BaseTools. Before compiling it, do
sudo apt-get install uuid-dev then make -C BaseTools
Step 4: Set Build Target Information
For the
Conf/target.txt file, find the following lines:ACTIVE_PLATFORM = Nt32Pkg/Nt32Pkg.dsc
TARGET_ARCH = IA32
TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = MYTOOLS
And change the corresponding lines to match these:
ACTIVE_PLATFORM = MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dsc
TARGET_ARCH = IA32
TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = GCC46
Note TARGET_ARCH and TOOL_CHAIN_TAG depends on your machine.
My machine Info gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
jeyaram@jeyaram-VirtualBox:~/UEFI_EDK2/edk2$ uname -a
Linux jeyaram-VirtualBox 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Step 5: Enter into EmulatorPkg and issue
./build.sh run
Few screenshots for your reference.
Now you are ready to do experiments on UEFI.
