How to get *32mscoff libraries for phobos?

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 20:27:35 Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> I have tried to build this and failed miserably. I have some
> questions?
> What make do you use? digital mars, gnu. what tools do you need?
> is it possible? I also failed to build zlib32coff.lib
>
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `zlib32mscoff.lib'.  Stop.
>
> I could say more but it probably wouldn't be useful.

AFAIK, COFF is not supported by dmd for 32-bit Windows. Walter made it so
that the 64-bit support used COFF and the VS linker rather than optlink, but
he left the 32-bit stuff as it was, so it still uses OMF and optlink.

- Jonathan M Davis