Defining your C++ template in a .cpp file
Posted by danielmeyer on October 21, 2009
Normally all your C++ template classes are implemented in their header files, and when we tried to move the definition of a template class out to a .cpp file, the compiler complained. I thought I remembered reading in Stroustrup’s The C++ Programming Language of a keyword that could help with this very issue, last time I was doing C++ programming. A little digging turned up the name of the keyword: export (TC++PL §9.2.3). However, it’s currently not a good option (also see the beginning of the discussion).
So, back into the header it goes. :)
