error: ‘unique_ptr’ is not a member of ‘std’

Question

I guess it's pretty self explanatory - I can't seem to use C++11 features, even though I think I have everything set up properly - which likely means that I don't.

Here's my code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

class Object {
    private:
        int value;

    public:
        Object(int val) {
            value = val;
        }

        int get_val() {
            return value;
        }

        void set_val(int val) {
            value = val;
        }
};

int main() {

    Object *obj = new Object(3);
    std::unique_ptr<Object> smart_obj(new Object(5));
    std::cout << obj->get_val() << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Here's my version of g++:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-2ubuntu1~12.04) 4.7.3
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Here's how I'm compiling the code:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ g++ main.cpp -o run --std=c++11
main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
main.cpp:25:2: error: ‘unique_ptr’ is not a member of ‘std’
main.cpp:25:24: error: expected primary-expression before ‘>’ token
main.cpp:25:49: error: ‘smart_obj’ was not declared in this scope

Note that I've tried both -std=c++11 and -std=c++0x to no avail.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from a flash drive on an Intel x64 machine.

Answer 1

You need to include header where unique_ptr and shared_ptr are defined

#include <memory>

As you already knew that you need to compile with c++11 flag

g++ main.cpp -o run -std=c++11
//                  ^