KilianKegel / Visual-Studio-for-UEFI-Shell

Getting started with Visual Studio 2022 for UEFI Shell and ANSI C cross-development. This is a CONTAINER for VARIOUS SUBPROJECTS, including John McNamara LIBXLSXWRITER and Mark Adlers ZLIB, ported to Visual Studio for UEFI

Visual-Studio-for-UEFI-Shell

Getting started with Visual Studio 2022 for UEFI Shell and ANSI C cross-development.

Many samples, how to

• use native UEFI API from ANSI C
• access PCI
• port MSDOS programs to UEFI Shell (find, more)

Revision history

https://github.com/KilianKegel/torito-C-Library#revision-history

• update to TORO C Library 20231014
• improve Visual-REFERENCE-COMPOSITION-for-UEFI project
• update:
  • Visual-ACPICA-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-DOS-Tools-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-TORO-C-LIBRARY-for-UEFI

20230910

• update to TORO C Library 20230909
• improve Visual-REFERENCE-COMPOSITION-for-UEFI project
• update:
  • Visual-ACPICA-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-DOS-Tools-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-TORO-C-LIBRARY-for-UEFI

20230410

• update to TORO C Library 20230409
• update:
  • Visual-ACPICA-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-DOS-Tools-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-TORO-C-LIBRARY-for-UEFI

20230305

• update:
  • Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-DOS-Tools-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-TORO-C-LIBRARY-for-UEFI

2023021

• update to TORO C Library 20230212

20230104

• update to TORO C Library 20230104

20221023

• provide additional libraries to ease project composition
  • Visual-REFERENCE-COMPOSITION-for-UEFI
  • Visual-TORO-C-LIBRARY-for-UEFI
  • Visual-LIBXLSXWRITER-for-UEFI-Shell
  • Visual-LIBWIN32-for-UEFI

20221022

• add O_TEMPORARY support to Microsoft/POSIX _open()
• fixed "fall time bug" (autumn). Broken time calculation on two digit month number (Oct, Nov, Dec).

20221009

• add Visual-REFERENCE-COMPOSITION-for-UEFI to demonstrate how to compose an project based on various libraries from external projects and configure Release/Debug for Windows/UEFI targets.

20220924

• Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell: change menu activation key (formerly ALT) to F10 for "C++ text UI/UX" sample program WELCOME14 NOTE: ALT-key is not supported on all platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMwCKA6SQrk

20220607

• Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell:
  • demonstration of C++ text UI/UX design for UEFI Shell

20220507

• Visual-ANSI-C-for-UEFI-Shell:
  • add support and demo for John McNamara's Microsoft Excel writer library libxlsxwriter
• Visual-DOS-Tools-for-UEFI-Shell:
  • update/improve find, more to support both 8+16Bit stdin
  • add program documentation

20220505

• suppress build warning MSB8012 due to redirected library output path

20220502

• add Visual-LIBXLSXWRITER-for-UEFI-Shell
• update to TORO C Library 20220501 for all projects