Hi Ard, With this patch, Ovmf still build failed on windows with VS2017. The error message like below:
Building ... d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Universal\Metronome\Metronome.inf [IA32] d:\edk2maintain\edk2\OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c(199): error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated d:\edk2maintain\edk2\OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.c(199): warning C4244: '=': conversion from 'UINT64' to 'UINTN', possible loss of data "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x86\cl.exe" /Fod:\edk2maintain\edk2\Build\OvmfIa32\DEBUG_VS2017\IA32\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciDxe\OUTPUT\.\ /showIncludes /nologo /arch:IA32 /c /WX /GS- /W4 /Gs32768 /D UNICODE /O1b2 /GL /FIAutoGen.h /EHs-c- /GR- /GF /Gy /Z7 /Gw /D DISABLE_NEW_DEPRECATED_INTERFACES /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\Build\OvmfIa32\DEBUG_VS2017\IA32\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciDxe\DEBUG /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdePkg /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdePkg\Include /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdePkg\Include\Ia32 /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg /Id:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Include d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\ComponentName.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\Build\OvmfIa32\DEBUG_VS2017\IA32\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciDxe\DEBUG\AutoGen.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciReg.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciQueue.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\Uhci.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciDebug.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UsbHcMem.c d:\edk2maintain\edk2\MdeModulePkg\Bus\Pci\UhciDxe\UhciSched.c NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x86\cl.exe"' : return code '0x2' Stop. build.py... : error 7000: Failed to execute command C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx86\x86\nmake.exe /nologo tbuild [d:\edk2maintain\edk2\Build\OvmfIa32\DEBUG_VS2017\IA32\OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand] build.py... : error F002: Failed to build module d:\edk2maintain\edk2\OvmfPkg\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand\LinuxInitrdDynamicShellCommand.inf [IA32, VS2017, DEBUG] - Failed - Thanks, Bob -----Original Message----- From: devel@edk2.groups.io [mailto:devel@edk2.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ard Biesheuvel Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2020 10:22 PM To: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>; Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> Cc: Feng, Bob C <bob.c.f...@intel.com> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH] OvmfPkg/QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe: drop tentative const object definition On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 20:22, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 03/06/20 17:40, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 17:14, Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> On 03/06/20 08:38, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >>> Bob reports that VS2017 chokes on a tentative definition of the > >>> const object 'mEfiFileProtocolTemplate', with the following error: > >>> > >>> OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe.c(130): > >>> error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated > >>> OvmfPkg\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe\QemuKernelLoaderFsDxe.c(130): > >>> warning C4132: 'mEfiFileProtocolTemplate': const object > >>> should be initialized > >>> > >>> Let's turn the only function that relies on this tentative > >>> definition into a forward declaration itself, and move its > >>> definition after the normal definition of the object. That allows > >>> us to drop the tentative > >> > >> (1) s/normal/external/ > >> > > > > Are you sure? The const object has static linkage. > > Yes, I'm sure. > :-) I should have known better than to doubt you on a matter like this ... Thanks for the explanation. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#55657): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/55657 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/71768124/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-