There are several tests in the library which use std::string and std::wstring. Do these compile? string and wstring are typedefs for basic_string<char, ..> and basic_string<wchar,..>. If you use basic_string<my_type, ....> you might need in explicitly instantiated something. Look at how serialization of std:string is implemented/instantiated. Robert Ramey "Jacob Holm" <jacobholm@gmail.com> wrote in message news:94342b580810300008u25bd7d4eua326fd84ece93a69@mail.gmail.com... Yes I am. /Jacob Holm On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote: are you including "boost/serialization/string.hpp" ? Robert Ramey "Jacob Holm" <jacobholm@gmail.com> wrote in message news:94342b580810290613i675e7db7h7d54cb3d1bfbe038@mail.gmail.com... I have a variable which is a basic_string, as I want my own allocator assigned to it. This gives me the following compiler error: "Error 3 error C2039: 'serialize' : is not a member of 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' ...\boost\serialization\access.hpp 109" I have searched around for this error but have not been able to find a solution. It would be possible to just pass a vector with chars in it, but basic_string is preferred. Has anyone else had this problem and maybe managed to solve it? /Jacob Holm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users