It compiles ok with VC++2008 Express too. I don't have g++ 4.4 so I can't test it.

I had to instantiate the constructor by adding this to the instances.inc file:

Does anyone understand why / know if the compiler can be told to do this automatically? I thought the whole point of templates was so you did NOT have to know the types that would be used?

Thanks,

Dave

The reason (for good/bad) is that when the compiler hits instances.inc.
It has not seen the definition of graph.
If you put include instances at the end of graph.cpp all is fine.

Note that you only need the template instance for the class e.g.
template class Graph<int,int,int>; since all the methods for the class are build. This should have been flaged as an error by VC++.
[in the same way that if you provide an explicit template function you should not explicitly instantiate it. ]