static members

From:
daniel <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:09:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<30e9cb5d-4021-4ad4-90f0-9151ee41290c@j33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>
Hello ,

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;
    }
};

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'
singleton.cpp:
(.text._ZN9Singleton11getInstanceEv[Singleton::getInstance()]+0x2e):
undefined reference to `Singleton::uniqueInstance'
singleton.cpp:
(.text._ZN9Singleton11getInstanceEv[Singleton::getInstance()]+0x54):
undefined reference to `Singleton::uniqueInstance'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Can you enlighten me :)

Thanks,
Daniel.

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