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The steps to repro this issue are: zig build-obj hello.zig -target x86_64-windows-msvc zig build-exe hello.obj -target x86_64-windows-msvc --subsystem console -lkernel32 -lntdll What was happening is that the main Compilation added a work item to produce kernel32.lib. Then it added a sub-Compilation to build zig's libc, which ended up calling a function with extern "kernel32", which caused the sub-Compilation to also try to produce kernel32.lib. The main Compilation and sub-Compilation do not coordinate about the set of import libraries that they will be trying to build, so this caused a deadlock. This commit solves the problem by disabling the extern "foo" feature from working when building compiler_rt or libc. Zig's linker code is now responsible for putting the appropriate import libs on the linker line, if any for compiler_rt and libc. Related: #5825
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