How to get *32mscoff libraries for phobos?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 23:39:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> 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

Rainer worked on it last year. I believe 2.067 was the first 
release to support it, though it isn't documented in the 
compiler's help list.