libmemcached builds fine on Linux and Mac, but on Windows the official way is mingw plus autotools, which is awkward if your project is already MSVC-based. I fork it and add a real Visual Studio project — .sln/.vcxproj in a win32 folder — so it compiles straight in VS2015 without touching the unix build chain.
Getting it to actually link and behave took a few more fixes: making it compile without SASL, and covering WSAEWOULDBLOCK/WSAWOULDBLOCK on connect()/recv()/send(), since Windows sockets use different error constants than POSIX. Open the vcxproj, build, and you get .lib/.dll you can link into any MSVC application.