Peter Dimov wrote:
One way to make it work is to add
friend class boost::enable_shared_from_this<Request>; friend class boost::shared_ptr<Request>;
to Request. _______________________________________________
Hmmm.... this "works", but Request is actually the root of a very large tree, and all my nodes get broken in the same way now. i.e. class Forecast_Snapshot_Request : public Request { boost::shared_ptr<Request> build () { return shared_ptr<Request> (new Forecast_Snapshot_Request); }; }; fails with 1>c:\boost\boost_1_40_0\boost\smart_ptr\shared_ptr.hpp(189) : error C2243: 'type cast' : conversion from 'Forecast_Snapshot_Request *' to 'const boost::enable_shared_from_this<T> *' exists, but is inaccessible I tried add more friend decls, but no dice. Sigh. Maybe I'll just add documention to call my wrapper, not shared_from_this ().