Compiling plugins need Boost, wiki is not up to date ?

[Feneck91]

I'm trying to compile codeblocks from svn with MinGW.
1> Last version of MinGW is not able to compile wxWidgets 2.8.11 (memory crash), so I took older version (gcc 3.4.5).
2> Compling plugins ask me the root folder of boost (not mentionned into the wiki here). So I download boost version 1.45 (76 463 688 bytes) and give boost root path to code::blocks.
3> It's seems working without boost compilation, isn't it ?

To compile codeblocks we really need to download boost ? Really used ?
Why the wiki is not up to date ? Is it because there is a new one ?

Thanks for your reply, I hope it will be usefull for other users...

[MortenMacFly]

To compile codeblocks we really need to download boost ? Really used ?

Only, if you compile the SpellChecker plugin. For C::B itself and all other plugins boost is not needed

[killerbot]

correction : nasi shneiderman plugin needs it to.

[Feneck91]

When I build Code::Blocks from sources, I build all plugins... so I need it.
It's seem working without compiling boost library (I just finish to compile all plugins), I know boost but I never use it.
Confirm that it is not necessary to build it, only extract files from downloaded boost zip ?

[Jenna]

When I build Code::Blocks from sources, I build all plugins... so I need it.
It's seem working without compiling boost library (I just finish to compile all plugins), I know boost but I never use it.
Confirm that it is not necessary to build it, only extract files from downloaded boost zip ?

Confirmed !

[danselmi]

Nassi Shneiderman plugin needs boost::spirit to create diagram from code. Spirit is header only - works without compiling. SpellChecker does not need boost.

[MortenMacFly]

Nassi Shneiderman plugin needs boost::spirit to create diagram from code. Spirit is header only - works without compiling. SpellChecker does not need boost.

My fault - I meant Nassi Shneiderman, not SpellChecker. So [to the Linux devs]: If you do not include the compilation of this plugin is there still a build dependency?

[Jenna]

We do not check for the existing of boost at the moment (except for debian build-system, there it is a build-dependency), so if you configure C::B to be build without Nassi Schneiderman, it should not lead to problems.

[MortenMacFly]

so if you configure C::B to be build without Nassi Schneiderman, it should not lead to problems.

OK - that's what I meant and this should answer the question precisely.
Probably we should put this on the build documentation / page referred to...
[Edit:] I've done so on both build pages for Windows and Linux in the WiKi for clarification.