Dear all, We use (too many) singletons in our program and now the program crashes in Boost Serialization because in an onexit function a static member (oserializer::instantiate) of Boost Serialization is already destroyed. Is there a way to force an intialisation of these static members so that they are destroyed after my singleton destroys? The code can be reproduced by the follwing snippet: // #define BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK #define BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC #include <fstream> #include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost/archive/xml_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost/serialization/base_object.hpp> #include <boost/serialization/version.hpp> struct Foo { Foo() : m_i(0) {} template <class Archive> void serialize(Archive& ar, const unsigned int /*version*/) { ar & BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(m_i); } int m_i; }; void f (); void test_serialize (); //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Function main //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Description : main //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- int main() { atexit(&f); test_serialize(); return 0; } void f() { test_serialize(); } void test_serialize() { std::ofstream ofs("test.xml"); boost::archive::xml_oarchive oa(ofs); const Foo foo; oa << BOOST_SERIALIZATION_NVP(foo); } wkr, me