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====Development environment====
Legacy bootloaders can be developed in any environment that can generate flat binary images: NASM, GCC, etc. UEFI applications can be developed in any language that can be compiled and linked into a [[PE]] executable file and supports the calling convention used to access functions established in memory by the UEFI firmware. In practice this means one of
[[EDK2]] is a large and complex, yet feature filled environment with its own build system. It can be configured to use GCC, LLVM, MinGW, Microsoft Visual C++, etc. as a cross-compiler. Not only can it be used to compile UEFI applications, but it can also be used to compile UEFI firmware to be flashed to a BIOS ROM.
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