David Abrahams
And I have again to reply to myself: It looks like a known bug: Searching for "boost cannot export symbol not found" google returned me https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4670 and https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4698
It's back up.
Thanks for the heads-up. However, I have alrady installed the patches (see previous mail) and I'm still unable to use boost.serialization. Without the patches, I get the linker error. With the patches, boost doesn't even compile
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\ release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\ polymorphic_iarchive.o
In file included from ./boost/archive/detail/iserializer.hpp:81, from ./boost/archive/polymorphic_iarchive.hpp:33, from libs\serialization\src\polymorphic_iarchive.cpp:19: ./boost/serialization/collection_size_type.hpp:59: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token
I got so fed up, I dug my old gcc 3.4.5-powered backup of MinGW running to try a build with it. Result: gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.2\ release\link-static\threading-multi\basic_text_wiprimitive.o libs\serialization\src\basic_text_wiprimitive.cpp:14:2: #error "wide char i/o not supported on this platform" "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -mthreads -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2\libs\serialization\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.2\release\ link-static\threading-multi\basic_text_wiprimitive.o" "libs\serialization\src\basic_text_wiprimitive.cpp" I also googled this one and found an open bug from boost 1.35 (!!!!) Bottom line: boost-serialization is unusable with both mingw-gcc-3.4.5 and mingw-gcc-4.4.0 Folks, this is utterly ridiculous. This is supposed to be the most portable and most standards compliant library in the WORLD and it doesn't even COMPILE on windows?! Philipp