Question

I’m getting an error with serializing a char* string error C2228: left of '.serialize' must have class/struct/union I could use a std::string and then get a const char* from it. but I require the char* string.

Answer 1

The error message says it all, there’s no support in boost serialization to serialize pointers to primitive types.

You can do something like this in the store code:

int len = strlen(string) + 1;
ar & len;
ar & boost::serialization::make_binary_object(string, len);

and in the load code:

int len;
ar & len;
string = new char[len]; //Don't forget to deallocate the old string
ar & boost::serialization::make_binary_object(string, len);