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/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py
index bc45a66e49..7e6e2db40d 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Workspace/MetaFileParser.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## @file

 # This file is used to parse meta files

 #

-# Copyright (c) 2008 - 2012, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>

+# Copyright (c) 2008 - 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

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 ##

 # Import Modules

 #

-import os

+import Common.LongFilePathOs as os

 import re

 import time

 import copy

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from Common.String import *
 from Common.Misc import GuidStructureStringToGuidString, CheckPcdDatum, PathClass, AnalyzePcdData, AnalyzeDscPcd

 from Common.Expression import *

 from CommonDataClass.Exceptions import *

+from Common.LongFilePathSupport import OpenLongFilePath as open

 

 from MetaFileTable import MetaFileStorage