error: unsupported linker arg: --exclude-libs

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Zig Version

0.11.0-dev.1796+c9e02d3e6

Steps to Reproduce and Observed Behavior

Trying to build python libs using zig c++:

/tmp/zig/zig-linux-x86_64-0.11.0-dev.1796+c9e02d3e6/zig` c++ -shared -L/tools/deps/lib -Wl,--exclude-libs,ALL -L/tools/deps/libedit/lib -g0 -isystem /home/joakim/.cache/bazel/_bazel_joakim/1eaa5bd43262acc0a542befd7785511c/external/python39_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include/python3.9 build/temp.linux-x86_64-cpython-39/./python_bindings/bindings.o -L/install/lib -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-39/hnswlib.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so -fopenmp -pthread
error: unsupported linker arg: --exclude-libs
error: command '/tmp/zig/zig-linux-x86_64-0.11.0-dev.1796+c9e02d3e6/zig' failed with exit code 1

Expected Behavior

No error

[Jengamon]

From the ld(1) man page:

--exclude-libs lib,lib,...

Specifies a list of archive libraries from which symbols 
should not be automatically exported. The library names 
may be delimited by commas or colons. Specifying "--
exclude-libs ALL" excludes symbols in all archive libraries 
from automatic export. This option is available only for the 
i386 PE targeted port of the linker and for ELF targeted ports.
For i386 PE , symbols explicitly listed in a .def file are still 
exported, regardless of this option. For ELF targeted ports, 
symbols affected by this option will be treated as hidden.

[polarathene]

It seems that there was a PR raised for implementing support but it was closed: #11916

When building a Python project and using Zig for source compilation of external python packages used (sdists), I ran into --exclude-libs linker arg multiple times preventing the usage of Zig with these packages. They all did the same pattern of providing the value ALL to the linker arg.

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UPDATE: --exclude-libs=ALL is also a linker arg used by the very popular and widely used builds of the python-build-standalone project (uv python install + other tools like Mize rely on this for distributing Python interpreter with broad compatibility).