On 11 August 2011 07:11, Martin Lederhilger wrote: > > What should I do in the case I receive no answer? Bugreport? Wishlist? A bug report, describing the behaviour you think is wrong and what the correct behaviour would be (I'm not familiar enough with the semantics of dllimport/dllexport to comment.) I'm not sure why you're not happy to use the extern template extension though - it's supported by MSVC and GCC (and other compilers) and is closer to standard than __declspec, as it's part of C++11.