From 6b5e015f94ef46dd6e73d6f1f653d3f20d9d160a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Uwe <donovaly@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:56:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [skip ci] [Mesh] add comment for boost

---
 .../MeshPart/App/MeshFlatteningBoostPython.cpp    |  2 ++
 src/boost_regex.hpp                               | 15 +++++++--------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Mod/MeshPart/App/MeshFlatteningBoostPython.cpp b/src/Mod/MeshPart/App/MeshFlatteningBoostPython.cpp
index 1efb7d6115..7c332318ef 100644
--- a/src/Mod/MeshPart/App/MeshFlatteningBoostPython.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/MeshPart/App/MeshFlatteningBoostPython.cpp
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 # include <TopoDS_Face.hxx>
 #endif
 
+// boost is purposely not in the precompiled headers, see
+// https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/7979#issuecomment-1358123252
 #include <boost/python.hpp>
 #include <boost/python/call.hpp>
 #include <boost/python/class.hpp>
diff --git a/src/boost_regex.hpp b/src/boost_regex.hpp
index 48d6e5e870..ac5b5fbced 100644
--- a/src/boost_regex.hpp
+++ b/src/boost_regex.hpp
@@ -3,17 +3,16 @@
 
 #include <boost/version.hpp>
 
-#if BOOST_VERSION >= 107800
-
 // Workaround for boost >= 1.78
-#ifdef WIN32
-#ifndef NOMINMAX
-#define NOMINMAX
-#endif
-#include <Windows.h>
+#if BOOST_VERSION >= 107800
+# ifdef WIN32
+#  ifndef NOMINMAX
+#   define NOMINMAX
+#  endif
+#  include <Windows.h>
+# endif
 #endif
 
-#endif
 #include <boost/regex.hpp>
 
 #endif // #ifndef FREECAD_REGEX_HPP_WORKAROUND