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Re: How to develop and integrate brand new module into GRUB2?


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: How to develop and integrate brand new module into GRUB2?
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 00:25:35 +0200
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On 03.10.2013 00:03, Mat Troi wrote:
> Hi Vijayakumar Venganti,
> 
> Sorry I overlooked your email last week :-(  I had the same question
> before and below is how I got it to work.  You need to regenerate
> Makefile.in file in your grub-core folder.  First, you need to modify
> Makefile.core.am <http://Makefile.core.am> to include your new module;
> to see how to do this, search in Makefile.core.am
> <http://Makefile.core.am> for "hello" module.  You also need to modify
> Makefile.core.def; again to see how to do this, search in
> Makefile.core.def for "hello" module.  On another machine (will be
> referred to as machine B), you need to install m4-1.4.6 at
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/, install autoconf-2.64, install
> automake-1.11.2.  Make sure your $PATH points to the stuff you just
> installed.  Then in your grub2 directory there should be a file named
> autogen.sh. Copy autogen.sh and tries to run it on machine B.  There
> will be warnings/errors for missing files, depending on the
> warnings/errors copy files from grub2 folder over to machine B.  After
> autogen.sh runs successfully, copy Makefile.in back to your work
> environment and from there run your normal build.
> 
"Why do easy if you can do complicated?"
Just change Makefile.core.def and rerun ./autogen.sh. That is.
> I hope this helps,
> Mat Troi
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     On 26.09.2013 09 <tel:26.09.2013%2009>:28, Vijayakumar Venganti wrote:
>     > Dear Friends,
>     >
>     > I need to develop a new module and integrate into GRUB2. I already
>     have
>     > the code written, my question is how to integrate the code into the
>     > existing GRUB2 build system so that the code gets built when make is
>     > entered at GRUB2's top level directory?
>     >
>     > My module is located at <Working
>     > directory>/grub2/grub-core*/testmodule/Makefile*
>     > So, I want to run the Makefile inside testmodule and integrate that
>     > module into GRUB2.
>     > Any help is greatly appreciated..
>     >
>     Do not create your own Makefile. Look at grub-conf/Makefile.core.def
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Vijay
>     >
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