diff --git a/examples/serialize.cc b/examples/serialize.cc
index d6b836f..a9adcf4 100644
--- a/examples/serialize.cc
+++ b/examples/serialize.cc
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 #include <iostream>
 #include <bitset>
 #include <cinttypes>
-#include "parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h"
 
 #define USE_CEREAL 0
 
 #if USE_CEREAL
+    #define PHMAP_DISABLE_DUMP // this is needed because the cereal doesn't like our hash map to have a dump() function
+
     #include "cereal/types/unordered_map.hpp"
     #include "cereal/types/memory.hpp"
     #include "cereal/types/bitset.hpp"
     #include "cereal/archives/binary.hpp"
     #include <fstream>
 #endif
+
+#include "parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h"
+
 #include <chrono>
 #include <functional>
 #include <cstdio>
diff --git a/parallel_hashmap/phmap.h b/parallel_hashmap/phmap.h
index cc37297..714f571 100644
--- a/parallel_hashmap/phmap.h
+++ b/parallel_hashmap/phmap.h
@@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ public:
         }
     }
 
-#ifndef PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC
+#if !defined(PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC) && !defined(PHMAP_DISABLE_DUMP)
     template<typename OutputArchive>
     bool dump(OutputArchive&) const;
 
@@ -3366,7 +3366,7 @@ public:
         return HashElement{hash_ref()}(key);
     }
 
-#ifndef PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC
+#if !defined(PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC) && !defined(PHMAP_DISABLE_DUMP)
     template<typename OutputArchive>
     bool dump(OutputArchive& ar) const;
 
diff --git a/parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h b/parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h
index 0f2018e..c5f3817 100644
--- a/parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h
+++ b/parallel_hashmap/phmap_dump.h
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ struct IsTriviallyCopyable<std::pair<T1, T2>> {
 
 namespace priv {
 
+#if !defined(PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC) && !defined(PHMAP_DISABLE_DUMP)
+
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // dump/load for raw_hash_set
 // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -166,6 +168,9 @@ bool parallel_hash_set<N, RefSet, Mtx_, Policy, Hash, Eq, Alloc>::load(InputArch
     }
     return true;
 }
+
+#endif // !defined(PHMAP_NON_DETERMINISTIC) && !defined(PHMAP_DISABLE_DUMP)
+
 } // namespace priv