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, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GuidSection.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GuidSection.py
index 36ad4f58ef..97d8ba8f76 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GuidSection.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GuidSection.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## @file

 # process GUIDed section generation

 #

-#  Copyright (c) 2007 - 2010, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

+#  Copyright (c) 2007 - 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

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 import Section

 import subprocess

 from Ffs import Ffs

-import os

+import Common.LongFilePathOs as os

 from GenFdsGlobalVariable import GenFdsGlobalVariable

 from CommonDataClass.FdfClass import GuidSectionClassObject

 from Common import ToolDefClassObject

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import sys
 from Common import EdkLogger

 from Common.BuildToolError import *

 from FvImageSection import FvImageSection

+from Common.LongFilePathSupport import OpenLongFilePath as open

 

 ## generate GUIDed section

 #