Cannot build on Ubuntu following the given instructions

[alecz20]

Following exact instructions from the README:

Git Clone ok.

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop$ git clone \--recurse https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/CloverBootloader.git
Cloning into 'CloverBootloader'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 116191, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (2219/2219), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (609/609), done.
remote: Total 116191 (delta 1692), reused 1795 (delta 1606), pack-reused 113972
Receiving objects: 100% (116191/116191), 222.28 MiB | 22.72 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (64654/64654), done.
Updating files: 100% (35074/35074), done.
Submodule 'OpenCorePkg' (https://github.com/CloverHackyColor/OpenCorePkg.git) registered for path 'OpenCorePkg'
Cloning into '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/OpenCorePkg'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 45442, done.        
remote: Counting objects: 100% (7508/7508), done.        
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (417/417), done.        
remote: Total 45442 (delta 7233), reused 7098 (delta 7091), pack-reused 37934        
Receiving objects: 100% (45442/45442), 216.99 MiB | 22.55 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (33481/33481), done.
Submodule path 'OpenCorePkg': checked out '8865f874167989c020973b467dacf4461f7298f6'
alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop$ cd CloverBootloader

cd CloverBootloader and ../edksetup.sh fails (obviously)

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/CloverBootloader$ ../edksetup.sh
bash: ../edksetup.sh: No such file or directory

but there is a local file named edksetup.sh, and we can execute it with ./edksetup.sh

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/CloverBootloader$ ./edksetup.sh
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 87: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 63: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 64: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 65: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 66: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 63: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 64: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 65: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 66: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 71: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 72: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 73: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 74: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 75: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 76: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/BuildEnv: line 77: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/BuildEnv.sh: No such file or directory
WORKSPACE: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader
EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools
CONF_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/build_rule.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/build_rule.txt
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/build_rule.txt': No such file or directory
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/tools_def.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/tools_def.txt
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/tools_def.txt': No such file or directory
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/target.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/target.txt
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/target.txt': No such file or directory
./edksetup.sh: line 149: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script

But it complains here is no Conf directory. So let's create it manually since the script seems to just copy files to that folder

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/CloverBootloader$ mkdir Conf

Run again

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/CloverBootloader$ ./edksetup.sh
WORKSPACE: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader
EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools
CONF_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/build_rule.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/build_rule.txt
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/tools_def.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/tools_def.txt
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/target.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/target.txt
./edksetup.sh: line 149: return: can only `return' from a function or sourced script

This worked.

Next to build - fails with missing python3-distutils

alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/CloverBootloader$ ./ebuild.sh -fr
TOOLCHAIN_DIR: /usr
NASM_PREFIX: /usr/bin/
NASM_VER: 2.14.02
Initializing workspace
recreate Conf folder
WORKSPACE: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader
EDK_TOOLS_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools
CONF_PATH: /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/build_rule.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/build_rule.txt
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/tools_def.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/tools_def.txt
Copying $EDK_TOOLS_PATH/Conf/target.template
     to /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/Conf/target.txt
Building tools as they are not found
make: Entering directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools'
make -C Source/C
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/Source/C'
Attempting to detect HOST_ARCH from 'uname -m': x86_64
Detected HOST_ARCH of X64 using uname.
mkdir -p .
mkdir ./libs 
make -C Common
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/Source/C/Common'
gcc  -c  -I .. -I ../Include/Common -I ../Include/ -I ../Include/IndustryStandard -I ../Common/ -I .. -I . -I ../Include/X64/  -MD -fshort-wchar -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -Wall -Werror -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-stringop-truncation -Wno-restrict -Wno-unused-result -nostdlib -g -O2  BasePeCoff.c -o BasePeCoff.o
...
...
...
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/Tests'

Python reported: "No module named 'distutils.util"

make[1]: *** [GNUmakefile:11: test] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools/Tests'
make: *** [GNUmakefile:19: Tests] Error 2
make: Leaving directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BaseTools'

Installed python3-distutils (i did using synaptic, but apt install python3-distutils would also work.

now the build was successful:

...
[NASM] boot1xalt.s -> /home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/CloverPackage/CloverV2/BootSectors/boot1xalt
'Description.txt' -> '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/CloverPackage/CloverV2/BootSectors/Description.txt'
'Installation.txt' -> '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/CloverPackage/CloverV2/BootSectors/Installation.txt'
make: Leaving directory '/home/alex/Desktop/CloverBootloader/BootHFS'
Done!

* Clover build process took  2m12s  to complete.

I am not sure if my solution is the correct one, but I can raise a PR with these changes later.

[chris1111]

Your solution looks good, see here it looks like your problem