Using Boost Serialization and errors you may encounter

To update your list of software packages in Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get update

To get the Boost Serialization library:
sudo apt-get install libboost-serialization-dev

I'm using:
libboost-serialization-dev version 1.34.1-4ubuntu3
g++ version 4.2.4-1ubuntu3

In main.cpp:

#include <boost/archive/text_oarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/archive/text_iarchive.hpp>
#include <boost/serialization/access.hpp> 
#include <boost/serialization/base_object.hpp>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

class Actor
{
public:
    Actor( void ) {}
    Actor( char gender ) 
        : gender( gender )
    {}
    char Gender( void ) const { return gender; }
private:
    friend class boost::serialization::access;
    template<class Archive>
        void serialize(Archive & ar, const unsigned int version)
    {
        ar & gender;
    }
    char gender;
};

void save( const Actor& actor, string filename )
{
    ofstream ofs( filename.c_str() );
    boost::archive::text_oarchive oa( ofs );
    oa & actor;
}

void load( Actor& actor, string filename )
{
    ifstream ofs( filename.c_str() );
    boost::archive::text_iarchive ia( ofs );
    ia & actor;
}

void testBoostSerialization( void )
{
    Actor actorAlpha( 'm' );
    Actor actorBravo( 'f' );   
    
    // save
    string filename = "sav.sav";    
    save( actorAlpha, filename );

    // test
    assert( actorBravo.Gender() == 'f' );

    // load
    load( actorBravo, filename );

    // test
    assert( actorBravo.Gender() == 'm' );
}

int main( int argc, const char* argv[] )
{
    testBoostSerialization();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

In Makefile (remember to put a real tab before where it says 'g++'):
all:
g++ -g -Wall testBoostSerializationInheritance.cpp -lboost_serialization

Error you may encounter 1:
/usr/include/boost/archive/detail/oserializer.hpp:566: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘boost::STATIC_ASSERTION_FAILURE<false>
To fix this error, make sure that you only pass const objects boost::archive::text_oarchive.

Error you may encounter 2:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::archive::archive_exception'
what(): invalid signature
Aborted
To fix this error, make sure that you have only one of either boost::archive::text_oarchive or boost::archive::text_iarchive created at a time.