Serialization of a command template in C ++

I want to do the following in C ++:

• create team object
• serialize it
• (send it to another computer)
• Deserialize
• execute

Two cases:

• sender and receiver win 7 computers
• sender is * nix and the recipient won 7

I found a tutorial to search: http://www.functionx.com/cpp/articles/serialization.htm . Is that the way? In python, I could do:

def setAndPackCommand(self, object):
    outFile = StringIO.StringIO()
    pickledC = pickle.dump(object, outFile) # this packs object to outFile
    stringToSend = outFile.getvalue() # decoding to string

def unpackAndExecute(self, stringToReceive):
    inFile = StringIO.StringIO()
    inFile.write(stringToReceive)
    inFile.seek(0, 0)
    receivedC = pickle.load(inFile)     
    receivedC.execute()

This code focuses on pickle.dump and pickle.load. What is C ++ copy? Wikipedia says C ++ doesn't support serialization? What is the connection above?

What does binary serialization mean? memory is flushed to disk, and deserialization requires exactly the same computer (without cross-platform transfers)?

br, juha