COMPILE.md

Compilation Instructions

Required libraries and headers for compilation

Arch Linux

pacman -S gnu-efi-libs pciutils check

Debian 8

apt-get install gnu-efi libpci-dev check

Compilation

This project uses autotools. Here you find useful documentations for autoconf, and automake.

To compile efibootguard, checkout the sources and run:

autoreconf -fi
./configure
make

To cross-compile, the environment variables must be set accordingly, i.e. CXX=<compiler-to-use>. The following example shows how to specify needed paths for an out-of-tree build, where cross-compilation environment variables have already been set before (i.e. by an embedded SDK from yocto or alike):

mkdir build
cd build
autoreconf -fi ..
../configure --host=i586 --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \
 --with-gnuefi-sys-dir=<sys-root-dir> \
 --with-gnuefi-include-dir=<sys-root-dir>/usr/include/efi \
 --with-gnuefi-lib-dir=<sys-root-dir>/usr/lib
make

where <sys-root-dir> points to the wanted sysroot for cross-compilation.