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If you have any problems (e.g. does not compile) with this package, consider the binary shells: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases.

Build fails due to non-initialized git submodules: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Common-instructions#initialize-submodules https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2677

Fixes with adding git submodule update --init to _prepare_tianocore_sources()

Yes, I've done that now, thanks for the suggestion. Seems sensible and it even simplifies the PKGBUILD a bit as a nice little bonus.

Can you remove the python2 references, and add the normal "python" package (for python3) to the "makedepends" array? Upstream has supported python3 since February 2019: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55

Thank you for adopting :)

I adopted this just so that I could apply the fix suggested by GeneArch (after testing it) but I'm happy to pass it over to someone else who's interested & more knowledgeable than myself. If no one contacts me I will do my best to keep things working as expected.

By looking at the file src/edk2/ShellPkg/ShellPkg.dsc

It is clear 2 versions of the shell are built. The 2nd one is :

# # Build a second version of the shell with all commands integrated # ShellPkg/Application/Shell/Shell.inf { <Defines> FILE_GUID = EA4BB293-2D7F-4456-A681-1F22F42CD0BC

So this is the one we will use

i.e. the shell to rename is Shell_EA4BB293-2D7F-4456-A681-1F22F42CD0BC.efi

Which means the change to PKGBUILD is simple:

In package()

Add a variable:

GUID="EA4BB293-2D7F-4456-A681-1F22F42CD0BC"

change install to use above guid

install -D ..../Shell_${GUID}.efi" ...

I am getting the same error as GeneArch. I assume we can just rename one of the efi files as Shell.efi but which one?

Getting Error now: src/edk2/Build/Shell/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/Shell.efi': No such file or director

Directory contains these now not Shell.efi 900 src/edk2/Build/Shell/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/Shell_7C04A583-9E3E-4f1c-AD65-E05268D0B4D1.efi 968 src/edk2/Build/Shell/RELEASE_GCC5/X64/Shell_EA4BB293-2D7F-4456-A681-1F22F42CD0BC.efi

Not sure what the difference is or if one of them is what we should now be using?

Build went fine, this error is in install phase

make[2]: Entering directory '/srv/installers/AUR/uefi-shell-git/src/edk2/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile'
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result EfiVfrParser.cpp -o EfiVfrParser.o
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result VfrLexer.cpp -o VfrLexer.o
g++ -c -DPCCTS_USE_NAMESPACE_STD -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2  VfrSyntax.cpp -o VfrSyntax.o
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result VfrFormPkg.cpp -o VfrFormPkg.o
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result VfrError.cpp -o VfrError.o
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result VfrUtilityLib.cpp -o VfrUtilityLib.o
g++ -c -I Pccts/h -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -O2 -Wno-unused-result VfrCompiler.cpp -o VfrCompiler.o
g++ -o ../bin/VfrCompile  AParser.o DLexerBase.o ATokenBuffer.o EfiVfrParser.o VfrLexer.o VfrSyntax.o VfrFormPkg.o VfrError.o VfrUtilityLib.o VfrCompiler.o -L../libs -lCommon
/usr/bin/ld: AParser.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: DLexerBase.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: ATokenBuffer.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against symbol `_ZTV16ANTLRTokenBuffer' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [GNUmakefile:42: ../bin/VfrCompile] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/srv/installers/AUR/uefi-shell-git/src/edk2/BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile'
make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:85: VfrCompile] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/srv/installers/AUR/uefi-shell-git/src/edk2/BaseTools/Source/C'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:25: Source/C] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/srv/installers/AUR/uefi-shell-git/src/edk2/BaseTools'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin//g++
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://bugs.archlinux.org/ --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-libmpx --with-system-zlib --with-isl --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-clocale=gnu --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libssp --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-plugin --enable-install-libiberty --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-multilib --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp --enable-cet=auto
Thread model: posix
gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC)

Although, installing it directly to /boot is not a good idea, because it may not be on the ESP. I would prefer an installer program, like bootctl or memtest86-efi.