On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:54:59 Christopher Pisz wrote :-
This might be more of a windows question, but...
Everytime I use a boost template as part of a class interface that is exported from a dll, I get this compiler warning.
warning C3251: 'boost_enable_shared_from_this<T>::weak_this_':class 'boost::weak_ptr<T> ' needs to have a dll-interface to be used by clients of class 'boost::enable_shared_from_this<T>'
How do I solve these types of errors?
Sadly with great difficulty (at least that was my experience) - Generally its so painful that its just easier not to export template code across a dll boundary. As you say its more of a windows question rather than a boost one see http://www.codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog/2010/01/18/dll-export-cxx-templates... or any other result from a google search of template dll export. However if you are in full control of your project and can ensure consistent use of heap (/MD), exception handling and can always be 100% certain that all the dlls are compiled with the same version of the vs compiler you can just ignore the warnings (#pragma warning is always useful : - ) ) and things will sort of work - till they just don't at some point when someone breaks the rules above - so I wouldn't recommend it for production code. Alex