Greg Clayton wrote:
I am trying to do explicitly instantiate specific shared_ptr class for export from a Win32 DLL (currently with MSVC6, and eventually in VS2003).
First things first. Why do you need to do that? Have you tried not exporting it, have you encountered any problems? [...]
When I look through the exports, some needed class functions seem to be missing from the DLL, and linking fails. Most notable are:
void boost::shared_ptr<SomeClass>::reset(SomeClass*)
This function is declared in the shared_ptr header file as: template<class Y> void reset(Y * p);
This is a function template. A template can't be exported, only an instantiation. template void boost::shared_ptr<SomeClass>::reset(SomeClass*); should instantiate reset with Y=SomeClass.