EDKII Base Tools Fails to build

Question

I'm following this tutorial and, while running python BaseTools/Edk2ToolsBuild.py -t GCC5 It throws this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<path to>\edk2\BaseTools\Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 188, in <module>
    main()
  File "<path to>\edk2\BaseTools\Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 184, in main
    Edk2ToolsBuild().Invoke()
  File "<path to>\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\edk2toolext\base_abstract_invocable.py", line 235, in Invoke
    retcode = self.Go()
              ^^^^^^^^^
  File "<path to>\edk2\BaseTools\Edk2ToolsBuild.py", line 159, in Go
    raise Exception("Failed to build.")
Exception: Failed to build.

I installed gcc trough MSYS2 MINGW64.

I tried removing the -t GCC5 argument but it just tried to use VS2015, which I don't have.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That particular error indicates that there was a make build error.

You can review the build logs at:

$(workspace)/BaseTools/BaseToolsBuild/BASETOOLS_BUILD.txt

to review the make error that is being bubbled up.

If you are still having issues after reviewing the build log, you could post the build log error from here as a discussion in the repository: tianocore/edk2 · Discussion, or file a bugzilla bug.