Rebecca Lehman wrote:
Does anyone have an example of how to serialize such pointers?
Here are some observations on your email a) note that the issues related to pointers and non-default constructors or orthogonal so you actually have two separate problems here. b) non-default constuctors. Check out files in the ...../libs/serialization/test directory: test_non_default_ctor and test_non_default_ctor2. Make a small program to test your serialization - don't use pointers just make sure the basic serialization works. c) pointers. The system is designed to permit serialization through an abstract pointer to a base class. However, it does require some care 1) there are two methods - "register" and "export" - you've used both in our example. I recommend using one or the other just to keep from getting too confused. 2) remember if you serialize through a derived pointer you can't de-serialize through the base class. That is, you always have to de-serialize to the exact same type you serialized from. 3) your example shows class D2 { ... }; BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_GUID(D1, "D1"); // should be D2 !!! check out ...../libs/serialization/test/test_exported.cpp for an example. Robert Ramey