DMC to Create C .lib ?

[Chris Andrews]

I'm working on a wrapper to a C dll and I think that I'll need to create a .lib file eventually to connect my D code to the C library.  

I've experimented with this a little, including using ipmlib to create the lib, which creates a lib but not one that works right (I think it mangles the names wrong.)  However, the excellent linkdef tool works to create a good .def which allows implib to create a proper lib.

Still, that seems a fussy way to build this: write it wrong, break it, use linkdef and implib to fix it.  I have the source code for that dll, so what I'm wondering is, can I just use some other DM tools (DMC?) to compile that C code and get a proper .lib from that?