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EDK2 Development Setup

1. Install Visual Studio 2019
   • Run Visual Studio installer
   • Select
     Workloads->Desktop development with C++
     Individual components->MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 Spectre-mitigated libs (latest)
   • If EDK source code requires old toolset for compilation, then install below component from VS 2019 installer. Otherwise skip this step.
     Individual components->MSVC v140 - VS 2015 C++ build tools(v14.0)
     1. Also, install Windows SDK 8.1

2. Download ASL compiler to C:\ASL and NASM assembler to C:\NASM.
   Refer https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Getting-Started-with-EDK-II

3. Install Python 3.x

4. Clone EDK2 source code from latest stable branch.
   git clone -b stable/202011 https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
   cd edk2
   git submodule update –init

5. Build source code
   set WORKSPACE=%cd%
   set PACKAGES_PATH=%WORKSPACE%\edk2
   set NASM_PREFIX=C:\NASM
   cd edk2
   edksetup.bat Rebuild
   build -p OvmfPkg/OvmfPkgx64.dsc -D DEBUG_ON_SERIAL_PORT -a X64 -b DEBUG -t VS2019

6. Run OVMF on QEMU
   - To run OVMF with virtual drive and serial log
   “C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe” -drive file=fat:rw:%WORKSPACE%\temp\,format=raw -debugcon file:%WORKSPACE%\OvmfPkg_X64_UART.log -global isa-debugcon.iobase=0x402 -net none -bios %WORKSPACE%\Build\OvmfX64\DEBUG_VS2019\FV\OVMF.fd

   • To run OVMF with virtual drive and without serial log
     “C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe” -drive file=fat:rw:%WORKSPACE%\temp\,format=raw -net none -bios %WORKSPACE%\Build\OvmfX64\DEBUG_VS2019\FV\OVMF.fd

   • To run OVMF without virtual drive and serial log
     “C:\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-x86_64.exe” -net none -bios %WORKSPACE%\Build\OvmfX64\DEBUG_VS2019\FV\OVMF.fd

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