There is a limitation on WINDOWS OS for the length of entire file path can’t be larger than 255. There is an OS API provided by Microsoft to add “\\?\” before the path header to support the long file path. Enable this feature on basetools.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Hess Chen <hesheng.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yingke Liu <yingke.d.liu@intel.com>

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@15809 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524

BaseTools/Source/C/VfrCompile/VfrUtilityLib.cpp

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   
   Vfr common library functions.
 
-Copyright (c) 2004 - 2013, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
+Copyright (c) 2004 - 2014, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
 This program and the accompanying materials                          
 are licensed and made available under the terms and conditions of the BSD License         
 which accompanies this distribution.  The full text of the license may be found at        
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
 
 #include "stdio.h"
 #include "stdlib.h"
+#include "CommonLib.h"
 #include "VfrUtilityLib.h"
 #include "VfrFormPkg.h"
 
@@ -3283,7 +3284,7 @@ CVfrStringDB::GetVarStoreNameFormStringId (
     return NULL;
   }
 
-  if ((pInFile = fopen (mStringFileName, "rb")) == NULL) {
+  if ((pInFile = fopen (LongFilePath (mStringFileName), "rb")) == NULL) {
     return NULL;
   }