From 6d213e207de2c743e83937f3bab842223348c326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:51:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] libcurl can init winsock since 7.8.1 --- docs/FAQ | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/FAQ b/docs/FAQ index 4575495..3b52f78 100644 --- a/docs/FAQ +++ b/docs/FAQ @@ -585,13 +585,7 @@ FAQ 5.4 Does libcurl do Winsock initialization on win32 systems? - No. - - On win32 systems, you need to init the winsock stuff manually, libcurl will - not do that for you. WSAStartup() and WSACleanup() should be used - accordingly. The reason for this is of course that a single application may - use several different libraries and parts, and there's no reason for every - single library to do this. + Yes (since 7.8.1) if told to in the curl_global_init() call. 5.5 Does CURLOPT_FILE and CURLOPT_INFILE work on win32 ? -- 2.7.4