Hi I try to use boost::recursive_variant with a recursive std::map. There are several projects and examples on the internet using boost::recursive_variant exactly like I do and it seems to work there. But somehow I can not make it compile in my environment. I am using gcc 4.6.1 and boost 1.46.1. I've stripped my code down to this: ------------------------------------------------------------- #include <boost/variant.hpp> #include <map> typedef boost::make_recursive_variant< int, std::map<float, boost::recursive_variant_>

::type element;

int main () { element i = 42; } But I always get these errors about uncomplete types (see attachments for full compiler output and code): ------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/include/c++/4.6/bits/stl_pair.h:93:11: error: 'std::pair<_T1, _T2>::second' has incomplete type /usr/include/boost/variant/variant_fwd.hpp:232:12: error: forward declaration of 'struct boost::recursive_variant_' used compile command: ------------------------------------------------------------ gcc recursive_variant_stripped.cpp 2> gccout.txt Thanks for any help and suggestions regards Marc