Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Serialization] shared_ptr compile-time error.

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Robert Ramey wrote:

string is considered a primitive type and therefore not serializable through a pointer. (shared_ptr<string> contains a pointer to a string. Look in the documentation for serialization of pointers.

You can address this by wrapping string in another class just for serialization.

Thanks Robert. It works now. Also, I've manged to find one of your previous discussions which made things much more clear: http://groups.google.com/group/boost-list/browse_thread/thread/8ebe5d1e00346... -Vjeko