rustc -Clink-dead-code causes MSVC linker to produce invalid binaries with 'found invalid metadata files for crate' error

[fadeevab]

Error: error[E0786]: found invalid metadata files for crate ....
MSVC: Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2022.
RUSTFLAGS: "-Zprofile -Ccodegen-units=1 -Copt-level=0 -Clink-dead-code -Coverflow-checks=off -Zpanic_abort_tests -Cpanic=abort"

The flag -Clink-dead-code is used with -Zprofile to produce a code coverage using nightly-msvc toolchain.

I get the following error on random crates during cargo build:

error[E0786]: found invalid metadata files for crate `serde_derive`
   --> ~\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\serde-1.0.118\src\lib.rs:286:1
    |
286 | extern crate serde_derive;
    | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    |
    = note: failed to decompress metadata: \\?\<my local dir>\target\debug\deps\serde_derive-961e5eaa49da36c1.dll   

error[E0432]: unresolved import `ser`
  --> ~\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\serde-1.0.118\src\de\value.rs:29:5
   |
29 | use ser;
   |     ^^^

Some errors have detailed explanations: E0432, E0786.
For more information about an error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `serde` due to 2 previous errors

The error is not reproduced with the GNU toolchain.

[ehuss]

Thanks for the report! This is a duplicate of #90056, so closing in favor of that.