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/GenFdsGlobalVariable.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GenFdsGlobalVariable.py
index cbf3d980a8..f97b41b834 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GenFdsGlobalVariable.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/GenFds/GenFdsGlobalVariable.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## @file

 # Global variables for GenFds

 #

-#  Copyright (c) 2007 - 2012, 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

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 ##

 # Import Modules

 #

-import os

+import Common.LongFilePathOs as os

 import sys

 import subprocess

 import struct

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ from Common.ToolDefClassObject import ToolDefClassObject
 from AutoGen.BuildEngine import BuildRule

 import Common.DataType as DataType

 from Common.Misc import PathClass

+from Common.LongFilePathSupport import OpenLongFilePath as open

 

 ## Global variables

 #