MSVC's lib.exe produces archives with absolute paths to the members. It's useful for llvm-ar to extract them to their basename in the CWD, since usually the directories in the path in the archive won't exist during archive extraction. Get a temp clean cwd to extract into. RUN: rm -rf %t && mkdir %t && cd %t RUN: llvm-ar t %S/Inputs/absolute-paths.lib | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-LIST CHECK-LIST: C:/src/llvm-project/build/dne/b.o CHECK-LIST: C:/src/llvm-project/build/dne/a.o Check that a.o comes out and defines foo. RUN: llvm-ar xP %S/Inputs/absolute-paths.lib 'C:/src/llvm-project/build/dne/a.o' RUN: llvm-nm a.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-A CHECK-A: T foo Check that b.o comes out and defines bar. RUN: llvm-ar xP %S/Inputs/absolute-paths.lib C:/src/llvm-project/build/dne/b.o RUN: llvm-nm b.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-B CHECK-B: T bar xP above is only required because we were explicitly extracting items from an archive with absolute paths. Extracting all objects doesn't need P because we aren't explicitly requesting any individual object. RUN: rm -f a.o b.o RUN: llvm-ar x %S/Inputs/absolute-paths.lib RUN: llvm-nm a.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-A RUN: llvm-nm b.o | FileCheck %s --check-prefix=CHECK-B