Getting Started with EDK II - tianocorecn/tianocorecn.github.io GitHub Wiki

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• Setup GitHub for Linux | Windows | MAC | All (https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git)
• To download and install a Git GUI interface (http://git-scm.com/)

• The EDK II project repository is available at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.
• Prebuilt Windows tools are available at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-BaseTools-win32.
• Please note that FatPkg is not included in the EDKII project repository, it is an independent repository which can be found at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-FatPkg.
• Content that is not released under an accepted open source license can be found at https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-non-osi.
  

A few different build environment types are documented. If instructions are not available for your exact system configuration, you may still be able to tweak the instructions to work on your system.

• Using EDK II with Native GCC (Recommended when using newer versions of Linux)
• Windows systems
• Xcode (Mac OS X)
• Other Unix-like systems (For older Linux distributions, or when using Cygwin or Mac OS X)

Note: Some of the following examples use the Multiple Workspace feature to configure the EDK II BaseTools. More information on the Multiple Workspace feature can be found at the following location.

• Multiple_Workspace

After setting up your build environment see EDK II Development Process for making contributions to the EDK II Project.

If you have questions about the code or run into obstacles getting things to work for you, please join our edk2-devel email list and ask your EDK II related questions on the list.

How to Write a simple UEFI EDK II Application, see: Getting Started Writing Simple Application

Understanding the basic setup of .DSC, .DEC, and .INF files Build Description Files