[edk2-buildtools] build.exe !include Processing is Broken

2014-12-11 Thread Jim_Dailey
It seems build.exe cannot handle 2 DEFINE references in a "!include" statement, and it emits a misleading error message to boot: Processing meta-data . build... u:\\.fdf(70): error 3000: Invalid syntax/format only these system environment variables are permitted to start the pat

Re: [edk2-buildtools] Building from Binaries

2014-07-17 Thread Jim_Dailey
Thanks, Mike. I understand that and have been down that road. Unfortunately, ACPI tables and a couple of other "special" things foiled that approach for me. In any case, I would still like to know why GenFds is looking for the presence of source files, when it is supposed to assemble the binaries

[edk2-buildtools] Building from Binaries

2014-07-17 Thread Jim_Dailey
I want to be able to supply a directory tree having tools and binaries from an already built EDK2 BIOS. This would be useful so that, for example, the provider of a driver which is included in the BIOS can rebuild the BIOS with newer or different versions of the driver for debug and/or development.