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, 1 deletions

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/Dictionary.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/Dictionary.py
index de3556b892..5300a5456c 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/Dictionary.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/Dictionary.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## @file

 # Define a dictionary structure

 #

-# Copyright (c) 2007, 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

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

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #

 import EdkLogger

 from DataType import *

+from Common.LongFilePathSupport import OpenLongFilePath as open

 

 ## Convert a text file to a dictionary

 #