[Boost-users] Re: simple example with boost/serialization?

From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-18 14:07:14

Alex Makarenko wrote:
> Now to the bad news: demo.cpp compiles but does not link with what looks
> like a thousand symbols missing (archives and serialization stuff).
> 
> Seems like i'm missing a library, but which one? and is it supposed to come
> with the debian package? (I do have all the include files.) I looked but
> couldn't find a dedicated package for just the serialization library.
> 
> There're three mentions of "libboost_serialization" in the archive of this
> mailing list but not a single word in the current documentation (website or
> local).  Is there some chunk of documentation I'm thoroughly missing?

Yes, the debian documentation. Look at 
/usr/share/doc/libboost-dev/README.Debian and all will be explained. The 
debian packages are set up a little differently to the normal boost 
setup which is why the boost documentation and mailing lists aren't much 
help here.

Daniel