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## Installation
You can either use [pre-built binaries for Windows and macOS](https://github.com/LongSoft/UEFITool/releases) or build a binary yourself.
* To build a binary that uses Qt library (UEFITool) you need a C++ compiler and an instance of [Qt5](https://www.qt.io) library. Install both of them, get the sources, generate makefiles using qmake (`qmake ./UEFITool/uefitool.pro`) and use your system's make command on that generated files (i.e. `nmake release`, `make release` and so on).
* To build a binary that uses Qt library (UEFITool) you need a C++ compiler and an instance of [Qt5 or Qt6](https://www.qt.io) library. Install both of them, get the sources, generate makefiles using qmake (`qmake ./UEFITool/uefitool.pro`) and use your system's make command on that generated files (i.e. `nmake release`, `make release` and so on).
* To build a binary that doesn't use Qt (UEFIExtract, UEFIFind), you need a C++ compiler and [CMAKE](https://cmake.org) utility to generate a makefile for your OS and build environment. Install both of them, get the sources, generate makefiles using cmake (`cmake UEFIExtract`) and use your system's make command on that generated files (i.e. `nmake release`, `make release` and so on).
## Known issues
* Image editing is currently only possible using an outdated and unsupported UEFITool 0.28 (`old_engine` branch) and the tools based on it (`UEFIReplace`, `UEFIPatch`). This is the top priority issue #67, which is being worked on, albeit slowly (due to the amount of coding and testing required to implement it correctly).
* Some vendor-specific firmware update files can be opened incorrectly or can't be opened at all. This includes encrypted HP update files, Dell HDR and EXE files, some InsydeFlash FD files and so on. Enabling support for such files will require massive amount of reverse-engineering which is almost pointless because the updated image can be obtained from BIOS chip where it's already decrypted and unpacked.
* Intel Firmware Interface Table (FIT) editing is not supported right now. FIT contains pointers to various image components that must be loaded before executing the first CPU instruction from the BIOS chip. Those components include CPU microcode updates, binaries and settings used by BIOS Guard and Boot Guard technologies and some other stuff. More information on FIT can be obtained [here](http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18931/eng/Intel%20TXT%20LAB%20Handout.pdf).
* Builder code is still not ready.
* Intel Firmware Interface Table (FIT) editing is not supported right now. FIT contains pointers to various image components that must be loaded before executing the first CPU instruction from the BIOS chip. Those components include CPU microcode updates, binaries and settings used by BIOS Guard and Boot Guard technologies and some other stuff. More information on FIT can be obtained [here](https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products-and-solutions/software-and-services/firmware-and-bios/firmware-interface-table/firmware-interface-table/).
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