Specifically when building ring. It looks like cargo_zigbuild requires you to set Build::enable_zig_ar, hopefully that's all that's needed.

Incidentally, I also tried in WSL, but that's failing in npm install @ziglang/cli because fetch() fails to to fetch the zig downloads manifest despite it working fine with curl (I can reproduce the issue in a fresh node with the same URL despite other URLs working fine), which is bizarre and not your problem (I guess unless you want to take on installing zig yourself) - I won't bother opening a second issue for this because it's probably something weird in my environment, just wanted to mention why I didn't use it.