Hi everybody, I am new to the serialization library and encountered a simple problem which I couldn't solve. I'd like to serialize simple stl containers. A minimal example is #include <fstream> #include <list> #include <boost/serialization/list.hpp> #include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp> int main(int argc, char** argv) { typedef std::list<int> List; List myList; myList.push_back(1); myList.push_back(2); myList.push_back(3); myList.push_back(4); std::ofstream ofs("archive.txt"); boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(ofs); oa << myList; } This doesn't compile under Linux using gcc-3.3 and boost-1.33.1 giving the following compiler error: /opt/toolkits/linux32/gcc-3.3/boost-1-33-1/include/boost-1_33_1/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:567: error: incomplete type `boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>' does not have member `value' Looking at the code at the given position hints that the type which should be serialized should be marked as track_never. I added the following command below the typedef of List BOOST_CLASS_TRACKING(List, boost::serialization::track_never) which also doesn't solve the problem... Maybe I am missing something very basic. I would be very thankful, if somebody could lift the curtain in front of my eyes ;-) Best Regards, Max