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> I was able to get this to work on windows by using > > -DCMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS=/llvmlibthin And with r242926 it looks like the new lld just works with thin archives on windows :-) Cheers, Rafael

> The Modules/Platform/Windows-MSVC.cmake module unconditionally > sets CMAKE_CXX_CREATE_STATIC_LIBRARY and uses CMAKE_LINKER. > As mentioned earlier the CMAKE_<LANG>_CREATE_STATIC_LIBRARY > and similar variables are internal implementation details > that are not meant to be set by users or project code. That > is why the above works only on certain platforms. > >