There is a limitation on WINDOWS OS for the length of entire file path can’t be larger than 255. There is an OS API provided by Microsoft to add “\\?\” before the path header to support the long file path. Enable this feature on basetools.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Hess Chen <hesheng.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yingke Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@15809 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/GenBootSector/GenBootSector.c b/BaseTools/Source/C/GenBootSector/GenBootSector.c
index f102ee139a..6ca86ae555 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/C/GenBootSector/GenBootSector.c
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/GenBootSector/GenBootSector.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /** @file

 

-Copyright (c) 2006 - 2013, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

+Copyright (c) 2006 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

 This program and the accompanying materials                          

 are licensed and made available under the terms and conditions of the BSD License         

 which accompanies this distribution.  The full text of the license may be found at        

@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ GetPathInfo (
     //

     // If path is file path, check whether file is valid.

     //

-    f = fopen (PathInfo->Path, "r");

+    f = fopen (LongFilePath (PathInfo->Path), "r");

     if (f == NULL) {

       fprintf (stderr, "error E2003: File was not provided!\n");

       return ErrorPath;