llvm-lib should behave like "link.exe /lib" and use relative paths to describe archive members. First, get in a clean working directory. RUN: rm -rf %t && mkdir -p %t && cd %t Make foo/a.obj and foo/b.obj. RUN: mkdir foo RUN: llvm-mc -triple=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc -filetype=obj -o foo/a.obj %S/Inputs/a.s RUN: llvm-mc -triple=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc -filetype=obj -o foo/b.obj %S/Inputs/b.s RUN: llvm-lib -out:foo.lib foo/a.obj foo/b.obj RUN: llvm-ar t foo.lib | FileCheck %s FIXME: We should probably use backslashes on Windows to better match MSVC tools. CHECK: foo/a.obj CHECK: foo/b.obj Do it again with absolute paths and see that we get something. RUN: llvm-lib -out:foo.lib %t/foo/a.obj %t/foo/b.obj RUN: llvm-ar t foo.lib | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=ABS ABS: {{.*}}/foo/a.obj ABS: {{.*}}/foo/b.obj