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Re: using templates in shared library
> If you want the linker to consider this instantiation intentional, and
> as a public interface of the library, you need to instantiate
> explicitely.
All symbols _are_ already instantiated in the library. The question is
how to get rid of them in the library or program linking to it. I
would maybe be happy with a method to tell the compiler by hand which
templates it should _not_ instantiate, but there's no such 1-x thing
it seems.
Instantiating manually is, for all practical purposes with loads of
STL in use, a nightmare.
Ok, I'll redo the design, this is obviously not a feature that anyone
has thought of before ;-) I wonder how other compilers handle this though.
Kasper