I'm going to show you how easy it is to get everything up'n'running using Windows 7 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, including installing necessary dependencies and setting the path for compiling dll's. `The author of this text has admitted they are not a "hardcore Windows developer" and doesn't know some things about the platform, like where to install third-party header files and libraries. `To start, you'll need to download and install git to check out the source code, and set up your path for compiling dll's. `The author has cloned all necessary dependencies from GitHub and is using nmake to build them. `They have also installed libisasl and vacuum, a debugging tool, as part of the process. `The author has successfully compiled libcouchbase itself and is now running the vacuum debugging tool on port 8091. `The goal of this post is to demonstrate how easy it is to get started with libcouchbase on Windows.