Re: [Boost-users] Cyclic includes when using smart pointers.

Jared Lee Richardson: ...

I have the following situation, simplified down.

Header file 1:

class Test1 { vector<Test2Ptr> mTest2Objects; };

typedef boost::shared_ptr<Test1> Test1Ptr;

Header file 2:

class Test2 { vector<Test1Ptr> mTest1Objects; };

typedef boost::shared_ptr<Test2> Test2Ptr;

Now normally I'd get around this easily by doing a forward declaration, but I can't do that with a smart pointer definition.

Why not? With raw pointers you'd do: class Test2; class Test1 { vector mTest2Objects; }; With shared_ptr you do class Test2; class Test1 { vector< shared_ptr<Test2> > mTest2Objects; };