Boost serialization: archive “unsupported version” exception

Question

I\'ve got the exception \"unsupported version\" when I try to deserialize through a text archive some data previously serialized with a upper version of Boost (1.46

Answer 1

Using text_archive ... I had a recent issue with this also. I recently upgraded boost from 1.67 to 1.72 on Windows, generated some data on Windows. When I ran the data on my Linux environment which is still on Boost 1.67, it throws not supported.

The header for 1.67 looked like this

22 serialization::archive 16

and 1.72 looked like

22 serialization::archive 17

I changed 17 to 16 and it was happy for my use case.