Re: [boost] Serialization and polymorphic archives

From: Chris Hamilton (chamilton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-11 09:13:31

The same thing occurs, with the corresponding missing symbol:

_ZN5boost7archive6detail27archive_pointer_iserializerINS0_25polymorphic_text_iarchiveEEC2ERKNS_13serialization18extended_type_infoE

> I would be interesting to know if the same occurs with text archives.
> 
> Robert Ramey
> 
> Chris Hamilton wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been using the serialization library for a while now.  Because of
>> the run-time module loading aspect of our project, serialization has
>> to
>> be available through virtual functions and we do this by wrapping
>> calls
>> to boost serialization using poylmorphic archive types.  In general,
>> this has worked well.
>>
>> We'd like to start using the 1.35 branch because we want access to
>> Boost.mpi as well.  Rebuilding the code against 1.35 works fine and
>> doesn't require any changes.  However, as soon as we try running any
>> code, we get the following missing symbol problem (this is happening
>> when run-time loading a library that links against
>> boost_serialization):
>>
>> undefined symbol:
>> _ZN5boost7archive6detail27archive_pointer_iserializerINS0_27polymorphic_binary_iarchiveEEC2ERKNS_13serialization18extended_type_infoE
>>
>> Any ideas on what could be going on here? I'm running revision 41959
>> built with GCC 3.4.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris Hamilton