Build EDK2 development environment

Clone edk2 repository:

git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git

After clone completed successfully, we need to build BaseTools. Before building, we must to update submodules. In edk2 directory,

git submodule update --init

then build BaseTools.

make -C BaseTools

Set environment variables for building, it will generate some configuration files in Conf directory.

export EDK_TOOLS_PATH=$HOME/src/edk2/BaseTools
source edksetup.sh BaseTools

Modify Conf/target.txt, according to the following example:

ACTIVE_PLATFORM       = MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dsc
# Also you can use RELEASE
TARGET                = DEBUG
# For X64 Architecture.
TARGET_ARCH           = X64
# GCC tool chain
TOOL_CHAIN_TAG        = GCC5

After all done, use build command to execute build testing, all modules in MdeModulePkg/MdeModulePkg.dsc will be built.

build