From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:42:28 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added comment for windows people about READFUNCTION being needed
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_12_3~177
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e80f566a1489401f04e3ed1a08ccb456cf778954;p=curl

added comment for windows people about READFUNCTION being needed
---

diff --git a/docs/examples/ftpupload.c b/docs/examples/ftpupload.c
index e69ec2d00..68b86fdf4 100644
--- a/docs/examples/ftpupload.c
+++ b/docs/examples/ftpupload.c
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     /* now specify which file to upload */
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_READDATA, hd_src);
 
+    /* NOTE: if you want this example to work on Windows with libcurl as a
+       DLL, you MUST also provide a read callback with
+       CURLOPT_READFUNCTION. Failing to do so will give you a crash since a
+       DLL may not use the variable's memory when passed in to it from an app
+       like this. */
+
     /* and give the size of the upload (optional) */
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE_LARGE, file_info.st_size);