Create, modify, and extract from archives (.a .so .o).
- Extract all members from an archive:
ar -x {{libfoo.a}}
- List the members of an archive:
ar -t {{libfoo.a}}
- Replace or add files to an archive:
ar -r {{libfoo.a}} {{foo.o}} {{bar.o}} {{baz.o}}
- Insert an object file index (equivalent to using
ranlib):
ar -s {{libfoo.a}}
- Create an archive with files and an accompanying object file index:
ar -rs {{libfoo.a}} {{foo.o}} {{bar.o}} {{baz.o}}