tools_def.txt Enhancement (Bugzilla Bug 54)

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Bugzilla Bug 54

Date: 2016-07-20T21:10:24+00:00
From: @mdkinney
To: @BobCF
CC: hot.tian, jie.b.gao, sigmaepsilon92

Last updated: 2018-11-05T02:40:02+00:00

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Comment 79

Date: 2016-07-20 21:10:24 +0000
From: @mdkinney

• Industry Specification: ---
• Releases to Fix: EDK II Master
• Target OS: ---
• Bugzilla Assignee(s): @BobCF

STLVNUB commented on Apr 9
Hi. Not really an issue, but it is, IMHO

The tools_def file is growing rather large, so I propose to split it into sub TOOL_CHAIN files.
i.e
Make all Tool chains seperate files.
e.g
VS_TOOLS.txt: Contains ALL VS data
GCC_TOOLS.txt: Contains ALL GCC data
ICC_TOOLS.txt: etc
UNIXGCC.txt: etc

Then the tools_def.txt will be quite small and the other files will be easier to manage.

Also
Defining a NASM and MAKE variables for custom building.
e.g building on OS X using GCC49, nasm and make will fail.

_*_NASM_PATH = nasm
change to
*__NASM_PATH = ENV(NASM_PREFIX)/nasm

GCC49MAKE_PATH = DEF(GCC44_IA32_PREFIX)make
change to
_GCC49_MAKE_PATH = make
@lerseklersek added BaseTools Feature labels on Apr 11
@nms42

nms42 commented on Apr 11
Some kind of 'include' (for the benefit of common code) would be good ;-)
@Download-Fritz

Download-Fritz commented on May 14
Michael Zimmermann just submited a patch that allows !include in tools_def. :)

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Comment 404

Date: 2016-08-03 13:02:17 +0000
From: Michael Zimmermann <>

I actually submitted a patch to split up the tools_def.txt but it wasn't merged yet because there may be problems with the usage model of that file.

here's the thread of the mailing list:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12583.html

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Comment 416

Date: 2016-08-04 20:28:36 +0000
From: Barton <<jie.b.gao>>

Bug Scrub: Assign to base tool owner for investigation

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Comment 5492

Date: 2018-11-05 02:40:02 +0000
From: Yonghong Zhu <<yonghong.zhu>>

change to Bob