Hi, I'm facing some compilation problem when I use text archive. But the same code works fine when I use binary archive. And it does write something on disk with specified file name (I'm yet to finish the restore part. Otherwise, I could've said it works). Do I need to do something differently? The error I get is something like following: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /boost/1_35_0/include/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp: In function ‘void boost::archive::save(Archive&, T&) [with Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive, T = TableMgr*]’: /boost/1_35_0/include/boost/archive/detail/common_oarchive.hpp:64: instantiated from ‘void boost::archive::detail::common_oarchive<Archive>::save_override(T&, int) [with T = TableMgr*, Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive]’ /boost/1_35_0/include/boost/archive/basic_text_oarchive.hpp:75: instantiated from ‘void boost::archive::basic_text_oarchive<Archive>::save_override(T&, int) [with T = TableMgr*, Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive]’ /boost/1_35_0/include/boost/archive/detail/interface_oarchive.hpp:64: instantiated from ‘Archive& boost::archive::detail::interface_oarchive<Archive>::operator<<(T&) [with T = TableMgr*, Archive = boost::archive::text_oarchive]’ /remote/gsoumen/hiers/trunk/code/cmds/Cmds.cpp:1518: instantiated from here /boost/1_35_0/include/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:564: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>’ cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My code is something like following: #include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp> //I use binary archive hpp when I use binary archive mode #include <boost/serialization/serialization.hpp> #include <boost/serialization/utility.hpp> std::ofstream ofs(fileName.c_str(), ios_base::out); // with bin archive I also use ios_base::binary boost::archive::text_oarchive oarchive(ofs); //for bin archive, oarchive is of binary_oarchive type TableMgr *tblMgr = TableMgr::instance(); if (tblMgr) { oarchive << tblMgr; } //I've TableMgr::serialize() defined ... Regards, ~ Soumen -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-Serialization%3A-Newbie--Compilation-Problem-Text-Arc... Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.