we don't need win32sockets.c anymore, we support this internally
diff --git a/docs/examples/Makefile.am b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
index c0c82f3..78e1bae 100644
--- a/docs/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign no-dependencies
EXTRA_DIST = README curlgtk.c sepheaders.c simple.c postit2.c \
- win32sockets.c persistant.c ftpget.c Makefile.example \
+ persistant.c ftpget.c Makefile.example \
multithread.c getinmemory.c ftpupload.c httpput.c \
simplessl.c ftpgetresp.c http-post.c post-callback.c \
multi-app.c multi-double.c multi-single.c multi-post.c \
diff --git a/docs/examples/win32sockets.c b/docs/examples/win32sockets.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f791c8..0000000
--- a/docs/examples/win32sockets.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-
-/*
- * Note: This is only required if you use curl 7.8 or lower, later
- * versions provide an option to curl_global_init() that does the
- * win32 initialization for you.
- */
-
-/*
- * These are example functions doing socket init that Windows
- * require. If you don't use windows, you can safely ignore this crap.
- */
-
-#include <windows.h>
-
-void win32_cleanup(void)
-{
- WSACleanup();
-}
-
-int win32_init(void)
-{
- WORD wVersionRequested;
- WSADATA wsaData;
- int err;
- wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(1, 1);
-
- err = WSAStartup(wVersionRequested, &wsaData);
-
- if (err != 0)
- /* Tell the user that we couldn't find a useable */
- /* winsock.dll. */
- return 1;
-
- /* Confirm that the Windows Sockets DLL supports 1.1.*/
- /* Note that if the DLL supports versions greater */
- /* than 1.1 in addition to 1.1, it will still return */
- /* 1.1 in wVersion since that is the version we */
- /* requested. */
-
- if ( LOBYTE( wsaData.wVersion ) != 1 ||
- HIBYTE( wsaData.wVersion ) != 1 ) {
- /* Tell the user that we couldn't find a useable */
-
- /* winsock.dll. */
- WSACleanup();
- return 1;
- }
- return 0; /* 0 is ok */
-}
