What invocation will use LZMA to compress tar output on my Mac (OSX 10.12.x)?

I've tried several invocations of the OEM tar to create LZMA-compressed tarballs. More specifically, I tried: tar -c -f --lzma Windows\ 7.vmwarevm.tar.lzma Windows\ 7.vmwarevm My efforts created an archive with filename --lzma, and tar complained of Windows 7.vmwarevm.tar.lzma: Cannot stat: No such file or directory, probably for the same reason: --lzma was taken as the filename of the archive to be created, and consequently the actual intended archive name was taken to be the first in a list of arguments to include in the archive. I thought after some searching that MacOS had not included it in the provided options, and built GNU tar from scratch, storing it under another name in /usr/local/bin. However, my efforts to use the above invocation with the renamed and newly built tar had the same effect: I was building an archive in --lzma. My computer has a seemingly working /usr/local/bin/lzma. What invocation(s) should I use, perhaps piping tar to lzma and perhaps in a script to do the work of "tar czf foo.tgz foo", but uses lzma instead of gzip for compression?