Force definition of symbol for a C++ template instance in a library

Question

I\'d like to provide a library that provides template code. But I would also like to keep the most possible the ownership of this code (generated code) when I can guess the

Answer 1

C++11 solution: use extern templates. Simply add these strings to your main.cpp file:

extern template void print_me<0>();
extern template void print_me<1>();

Thus you tell compiler not to instantiate print_me function template in main.cpp (for template arguments 0 and 1). So linker should search definition of void print_me<0>(); and void print_me<1>(); in other translation units.