title: how to build boost serialization library
body: <p>I read somewhere that the serialization library of boost has to be compiled (I forgot where I read it, otherwise I would have posted a link).</p>
  
  <p>So I downloaded the latest release from source forge and extracted it to a path in my project.
  And now?</p>
  
  <p>I investigated the folder, but I couldn't find a <code>makefile</code>.</p>
  
  <p>So what do I have to do, to compile the boost:serialization lib?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: nevertheless I tried to work with it, without compiling it, but I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>boost/archive/basic_xml_oarchive.hpp:92:9: error: 
  no matching function for call to 'assertion_failed'
      BOOST_MPL_ASSERT((serialization::is_wrapper&lt; T &gt;));
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So I think the reason for this is, that it wasn't compiled. Is that right?</p>