How to link *.a file on Windows?

[kinke 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?

You'd probably need to use the GNU linker then, but the D objects 
would need to match the format used for your C++ lib. You could 
give the GDC compiler a shot, or use clang to compile the C++ lib 
to MS COFF format (.lib), which can then be fed to both DMD and 
LDC on Windows.