Since we are putting a lot of effort into implementing our linker for all supported targets (#8726), we should also put some effort into adding our own implementation of a static archiver to replace llvm-ar. While in general llvm-ar is working well on the host platform when targeting the host platform, in cross-compilation settings things can get wonky when the archiver will produce native static archive headers for foreign file formats possibly tripping the linker upon trying to use it.
This is a great issue for any new contributor as it allows you to create an archiver as a completely standalone program (in its own repo like zld for instance) and then upstream it into Zig once it's ready.
Also, with this issue closed, we will be able to offer zig ar as a subcommand that does not rely on llvm-ar in any way.
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