Compiling for 32 bit on a 64 bit DMD

I am using xubuntu 16.04 amd64, and use the D Language. I used to use DMD i386 on a 32 bit machine (ubuntu 14.04), but now, for some reason, I can’t (or don’t want to) install DMD_i386 on my system, so I installed the one for amd64. All of my projects were written on a 32 bit machine, and I used the int type instead of the long type that’s available on 64bit. Now whenever I try to compile something that I wrote earlier, that looks something like this, gives an error;

void someFunction(){
   string[] someArray;
   uint ln = someArray.length;//This compiled perfectly on 32 bit, but now it says that someArray.length is ulong, and ln is uint.
}

I know that changing ln’s type to ulong will fx it, but I wan’t to compile this for 32 bit, and not 64 bit, and on 32 bit, the long/ulong type isn’t available, since it uses 64 bits.

What I’ve tried: I’ve tried using the -m32 switch to make DMD produce 32 bit output. The error mentioned above is fixed by this, but a linker (ld) error shows up:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrt
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/libgcc_s.so when searching for -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/libgcc_s.so when searching for -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- errorlevel 1

How do I get DMD to produce 32 bit output on a 64 bit DMD?

Answer

Solved the problem myself. Turns out, I was missing some packages needed by the linker. This solved the problem:

sudo apt install gcc-multilib

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