Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] boost::serialization adds huge amounts of exports to resultant Windows PE file

Chris Yuen wrote:

Hey guys,

I am using boost::serialization from 1.44.0. One thing that I noticed is that linking statically to the serialization libs will add several hundred exports in the final exe file that I get. Using `dumpbin /exports my_program.exe`

These functions are not explicity called from the library. But they ARE called as part of the serialization process. Its just that MSVC doesn't see them. So when you compile for release, The MSVC Linker strips them out and the program won't work anymore. In order to work around this, these functions are explicitly exported. This prevents MSVC from stripping them out. For more information see force_include.hpp Robert Ramey