Prepending toolchain flags or setting tool parameter order

[ArgoreOfficial]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

A specialized archiver I am working with uses the format ar [mode] -o [outFile] [inputFiles...]
This mode flag has to be the first parameter, and from what I have found you are only able to append flags at the end

Describe the solution you'd like

add_arflags("mode", { prepend = true }) this would yield the following command artool mode -o "outfile.a" "one.o" "two.o" "three.o" ...etc

Describe alternatives you've considered

alternatively some way to directly set the order set_ar_order({ "userflags", "defaultflags", "files", ...etc })

Additional context

No response

[ArgoreOfficial]

for now I've solved this with an intermediate executable that takes the xmake inputs and reformats them for the archiver

having it natively in xmake would be nice though

[waruqi]

Reordering flags is not supported yet, and it's complicated to implement.

if you use specialized archiver, you can call set_toolset("ar@artool mode") to set mode.

or write a shell script to wrap it to ar

or wait for this feature to custom toolchain command and flags. https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/issues/5554

[ArgoreOfficial]

I tried doing "ar@artool mode" but that failed due to the exec trying to run a file named artool mode.
if I remember correctly the command it called looked something like exec( "\"artool mode\" -o file... ..etc" )

I'll wait for the feature, my workaround does its job for now :)