On 02/19/2016 04:20 AM, Merrill Cornish wrote:

Can anyone tell me if this will work, or do I need to implement the serialize() function?

When you are doing different things for the input and output archives then it is better to split serialization into load and save: #include #include namespace boost { namespace serialization { template <typename Archive> void serialize(Archive& ar, filesystem::path& p, const unsigned int version) { split_free(ar, p, version); } template<class Archive> void save(Archive & ar, const filesystem::path& p, unsigned int version) { ar << p.string(); } template<class Archive> void load(Archive & ar, filesystem::path& p, unsigned int version) { std::string data; ar >> data; p = data; } }}