Hi, probably has been asked already thousand of times but I'm stuck currently with some code: Assuming I have the following files (The Base class Action is serialized in the same way): File: Ping.h #include"Action.h" classPing:publicAction{ public: voidoperator()(); Ping(); Ping*clone()const; ~Ping(); template<typenameArchive> voidserialize(Archive&ar,constunsignedint); }; BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY2(Ping,"Ping"); File: Ping.cpp #include"Ping.h" #include<iostream> #include<boost/serialization/base_object.hpp> #include<boost/serialization/export.hpp> #include<boost/serialization/tracking.hpp> #include"Action.h" #include"system.h" #include"pong.h" #include"serializerdeserializer.h" #include"system.h" #include"connection.h" #include"communication.h" voidPing::operator()(){ } Ping::Ping() { } Ping*Ping::clone()const{ Ping*ping=newPing(*this); returnping; } template<typenameArchive> voidPing::serialize(Archive&ar,constunsignedint){ ar&BOOST_SERIALIZATION_BASE_OBJECT_NVP(Action); } Ping::~Ping(){} BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_IMPLEMENT(Ping); BOOST_CLASS_TRACKING(Ping,boost::serialization::track_never); If I now compile the project into a library. And link this library to a different project. If I try to serialize the class now it doesn't work. I get the following error: unregistered class - derived class not registered or exported According to the boost documentation I need to use BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY in the header file and BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_IMPLEMENT in the corresponding cpp file. What did I miss? Regards, Wolfgang