Enable edk2 build with Cmake - shijunjing/edk2 GitHub Wiki

CMake resources:

• CMake official help
• An Introduction to Modern CMake
• Youtube: CMake Tutorial
• Youtube: How to CMake Good
• Youtube: CppCon 2019: Craig Scott "Deep CMake for Library Authors". Slides Link.
• Youtube: CppCon 2017: Mathieu Ropert “Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design”. Slides Link.
• How to make CMake targeting multiple platforms in a single build: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25365513/how-to-make-cmake-targeting-multiple-platforms-in-a-single-build
• BoF: Multibuild for Zephyr RTOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJ-r94MUnI

Enable cmake (https://cmake.org/) for edk2 build

• Build tool to convert legacy INF/DEC/DSC to cmake CMakeLists.txt
• Enabling branch: https://github.com/shijunjing/edk2/tree/cmake

working notes

• 20201005: Add CMakeLists.txt and test cmake build for PeiPcdLib

~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ git diff master --name-only
CMakeLists.txt
MdePkg/Library/PeiPcdLib/CMakeLists.txt

~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2$ git checkout cmake
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2$ mkdir cmakebuild && cd cmakebuild
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -G "Unix Makefiles"
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ cmake --build .
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ make
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ rm * -r -f
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -G "Ninja"
~/wksp_efi/edk2-fork2/cmakebuild$ ninja -v
C:\Project\edk2git\edk2-fork\cmakebuild> cmake .. -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON -G "Visual Studio 14"
C:\Project\edk2git\edk2-fork\cmakebuild> cmake --build .