On 13/08/12 18:31, Jordan Justen wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Attilio Rao<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13/08/12 18:09, Jordan Justen wrote: >> >>> The EmulatorPkg& OvmfPkg portions of your patch are available in edk2 >>> r13630. >>> >> I wanted to ask, there is any plan to support also older compiler? >> FWIW, I tried to port OvmfPkg to NetBSD and the hardest part to support >> it natively is that due to license reasons NetBSD is stuck with gcc-4.1.2. >> > For systems with older GCC, you can try to build a 'mingw' GCC. > (BaseTools/gcc/mingw-gcc-build.py) > >
Interesting ptr, thanks. > Before GCC 4.4, we could not support the X64 architecture with the > native/distro GCC. This is because GCC did not support the UEFI X64 > ABI unless you built the mingw version. > > But, if you only want to build IA32, then older native/distro GCC > might be able to work. > > Actually I would like to be interested in 64-bits too, but at least this is certainly an improvement. When I get some time to stick to it I'll let you know how it ends up. Attilio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
