[Mingw-users] Templates and MingW

[<Joe...@ao...>]

   I am used to using VC++ 6.0 & templates.  I have found out that I have to 
explicitly instantiate templates (after reading Tom Swan's GNU C++ book).  Are 
there some examples/tutorials that show exmaples of all the possibility for 
link with templates under mingw?  Explicit instantiation is nice when you know 
know everything you want to use the template with, but that may not be the 
case.  I would prefer to have the compiler automatically instantiate the 
instances of templates.  
   I understand that explicit instantiation can make for cleaner code, but it 
seems to defeat the purpose of templates.  How is the undefined reference 
problem gotten around in the STL for user defined templates?
Thank you in advance.
Joe M.