How to get *32mscoff libraries for phobos?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 20:27:37 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
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.

First off, make sure you build a 32-bit COFF version of Phobos. 
DMD does not ship with it by default. You can use the Druntime 
and Phobos source included in the DMD distribution. You'll need 
to make sure you have Microsoft toolchain installed. See the post 
at [1] where Rainer shared the relevant bits of a batch file he 
uses to build. Visual Studio provides links in the Start menu to 
open up command prompts with a preconfigured environment, so if 
you use that you don't need the configuration at the top of the 
batch file.

Once the library is built, it will be written out in the Phobos 
source directory. I learned that it's not enough to copy it to 
DMD's lib directory -- it's never picked up. I copied it to the 
8.1 SDK lib directory.

Any C libraries you use will need to be compiled with Visual 
Studio (or a version of clang using the MS toolchain). When 
compiling D libraries or apps with DMD, pass the -m32mscoff 
switch. If you use DUB, you'll need to add it to your 
configuration in an -lflags directive.