How to link *.a file on Windows?

[Basile B. via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 17:09:38 UTC, Brian wrote:
> I use cygwin build a C++ lib file:
>
> libmemcached.a
>
> but, how to link it to my dub project?

should be a .lib under windows. *.a is an archive of object files 
(aka a static library) for Posix systems. *.lib is the same but 
for Windows.