Re: static members

From:
Michael DOUBEZ <michael.doubez@free.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:22:30 +0200
Message-ID:
<48807bc7$0$1883$426a74cc@news.free.fr>
daniel a ?crit :

I have the following code , which implements the singleton pattern:

class Singleton{
private:
    static Singleton* uniqueInstance;
    //other useful instance variables here

    Singleton(){
        cout<<"Object created!"<<endl;
    }

public:
    static Singleton* getInstance(){
        if(uniqueInstance == NULL)
            uniqueInstance = new Singleton();
        return uniqueInstance;
    }
};


You must instantiate Singleton::uniqueInstance.
Add the following line somewhere in a cpp:

Singleton* Singleton::uniqueInstance;

int main(){
    Singleton::getInstance();
    return 0;
}

But when i try to compile it , i get the following error:

dan@sea:~/school/dp$ g++ -o singleton singleton.cpp
/tmp/ccHL1rvi.o: In function `Singleton::getInstance()':
singleton.cpp:
(.text._ZN9Singleton11getInstanceEv[Singleton::getInstance()]+0x8):
undefined reference to `Singleton::uniqueInstance'

[snip]

--
Michael

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