I have trouble using ar.exe that comes bundled with the U++-mingw32 windoze installer. None of the options are working. I tried ar -cr to build the archive and it failed. I also tried ar -x and extraction failed too.
Most likely these options are not implemented. Tom had only the time and energy to get things required for U++ build process working.
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Are these tools (ar and ld) maintained?
Bugs are fixed, but frankly, no change was done in last year or so. Anyway, sources come with U++, so perhaps you can consider patching
In fact, now when Windows SDK can be had for free, there is a little motion right now to improve Mingw related stuff...