Memcached on windows
Posted by: jango on: December 17, 2009
Often developers especially whom with python (Django) , ruby (on rails), php, find difficult to get their caching subsystem – memcached [http://memcached.org]- run on windows. Though there hasn’t much work to port memcached to windows it is easy to get it working using colinux [http://www.colinux.org/]
Steps to do
1. Install colinux
2. Download the fedora image – I did with it
3. Enabled networking between the host os and guest os (between windows and linux) see it here [http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Network]
4. Download latest memcached to linux – install it – Remember you should have libevent installed prior to it
5. Using any of the apis access the memcached running on the linux from windows – I checked with python api
Update: You can get memcached on windows here : http://labs.northscale.com/memcached-packages/
Happy programming in windows 
December 17, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Actually, we at NorthScale have been producing Windows binaries for a little bit here. They even run as a Windows service. See http://labs.northscale.com for details.
December 18, 2009 at 4:52 am
Hey Matt, that is awesome, I have added the link to my post – thanks for pointing me
cheers!!!