(A bit of shameless self-promotion...) For those looking for the ability to use TokyoCabinet and TokyoTyrant on Windows with MSVC, I have Win32 DLLs, libs and headers ready to download from http://spench.net/drupal/software/tok... There are two versions with slightly different feature sets: one has been compiled with Cygwin (full local and remote DB API), the other under MinGW (remote DB access only). The main aim was to allow a Windows client developed with Visual Studio to access a TokyoTyrant server running on a different machine.