2.5 [Includes] Usage

This is an optional section.

The [Includes] section is used to identify the "standard" location "include directories" provide by this EDK II package. The [Includes] contains a list of package relative directory names. These directories contain sub-directories or header files. If the Package directory contains the directories, and the Include, Include/Ppis, Include/Protocol and Include/Guid, and header files exist in each of these directories, then all four directories will be listed in this section.

This list of directories is used by the build tools to create the list of standard directory locations required by compilers.

Also included in this section are the directories containing headers that may be required for individual EDK II module types. Refer to Appendix, "EDK II Module Types", for a list of the valid types.

The section tag modifier, Private, is used to restrict the EDK II build system by preventing references to content in these sections from being used by modules outside of the package.

Refer to the [Includes] definition later in this document for a complete description of this section and its contents.

The [Includes] section uses one of the following section definitions:

[Includes]

[Includes.common]

[Includes.common.Private]

[Includes.IA32]

[Includes.IA32.Private]

[Includes.X64]

[Includes.X64.Private]

[Includes.IPF]

[Includes.IPF.Private]

[includes.EBC]

[includes.EBC.Private]

Architectural sections may also be combined, as in:

[Includes.IA32, Includes.X64]

[Includes.IA32.Private, Includes.X64.Private]

The format for entries in this section is one field, with an optional comment "#" field as shown below:

Package_Relative/path # Comment such as Keyword List

The relative path is relative to the directory the DEC file is in. Use of "..", "./" and "../" in the directory path is not permitted.

Caution: Do not list individual files in the [Includes] section.