How to make boost::make_shared a friend of my class

Question

I have written a class with protected constructor, so that new instances can only be produced with a static create() function which returns shared_ptr\'s to my class. To provide

Answer 1

I would try without the template part. After all, you want a specific instantiation of the (template) function to be a friend of your class, aren't you? Does

friend boost::shared_ptr boost::make_shared(const ConnectionManagerPtr&, const std::string&);

work?

If that's not the solution, it might be helpful to give us the compiler messages you're getting ...