From: Ian Miller <itm AT shelob DOT plus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Odp: Library with templates - help !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:28:33 -0000
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"Rafal Maj" <maj_rafal AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl> writes:

> Yes,
> but when definiton (in real program - very long) of my class is in box.h,
> then it is re-compiled every time, with can take very much time.

What Jason Green showed you is the normal way of writing template
classes and their functions...

> I want to
> have definition in other .cc file to re-compile it only when necessary, in
> bug.h I want only definition of my class.

...and this isn't.  (I believe you mean "declaration" by the way.)

> When I write definition of normal class in my library *.cc file - OK
> When I write definition of  template class in my main *.cc file - OK
> When I write definition of  template class in my library *.cc file - error !

That's just the way template classes work, I'm afraid.
(So far as I know anyway.)

Some compilers can "compile the headers" on order to answer
your objection to writing the code correctly, but I don't
think gcc does so yet.

Regards,
Ian