Changeset 108719 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/Config.kmk

Timestamp:

Mar 24, 2025 3:26:59 PM (4 weeks ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

168136

Message:

tools,Devices/EFI/Firmware: Switch to a clang based cross compile toolchain for arm32 and arm64 UEFI images like we have on Windows, bugref:10874 bugref:4643

Using clang has several advantages:

• It is far easier to build so updating the toolchain should be much simpler
• A single toolchain can support multiple targets, no need to have two different toolchains for arm32 and arm64
• The toolchain can be used for cross compilation (the current toolchain supports x86,amd64,arm32,arm64 and riscv...)
• As clang is already used for the firmware images shipped in a release the resulting images compiled locally are much more close to what is built on the buildbox

The only downside is that the clang toolchain is a bit on the heavy side, even if stripped down. OTOH we only need a single toolchain opossed
to the two we had before.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/Config.kmk (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Devices/EFI/Firmware/Config.kmk

@@ -80 +80 @@
  VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.x86   := VS2019
  VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.amd64 := VS2019
- VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm32 := CLANGDWARF
- VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm64 := CLANGDWARF
 else
  VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.x86   := GCC48
  VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.amd64 := GCC48
- VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm32 := GCC48
- VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm64 := GCC48
-endif
+endif
+
+VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm32 := CLANGDWARF
+VBOX_EFI_TOOL_CHAIN.arm64 := CLANGDWARF