"recipe for target failed" Problem

[Hco123]

Hey there everyone!

What i'm trying to do:
so my mission is to write a program that will manage an academic institution.
I need to create four classes (Student, Course, Department, Academic Institute).

The hard part (I think) is creating a list of Courses for each student (and later create a list of Students for each Course...)
So i created a template class Node:

This is its .cpp code:
#include "Node.h"

template<class Type>
Node<Type>::Node() {
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
cout<<"NEW NODE!"<<endl;
nodePointer = NULL;
}

template<class Type>
Node<Type>::Node(Type data){
cout<<"NEW NODE!1"<<endl;
this->nodeData = data;
this->nodePointer = NULL;
}

template<class Type>
Node<Type>::Node(Type value, Node<Type> * nextNode){
this->nodeData = value;
this->nodePointer = nextNode;
}

template<class Type>
void Node<Type>::operator =(const Node<Type> &other){
if(this != &other){
if(other.nodeData != nodeData){
other.nodeData = nodeData;
other.nodePointer = nodePointer;
}
}
}

template<class Type>
Type Node<Type>::getNodeData(){
return nodeData;
}

template<class Type>
Node<Type> * Node<Type>::getNodePointer(){
return nodePointer;
}

template<class Type>
void Node<Type>::setNodeData(Type data){
this->nodeData = data;
}

template<class Type>
void Node<Type>::setNodePointer(Node<Type> * pointer){
this->nodePointer = pointer;
}

template<class Type>
Node<Type>::~Node() {
// TODO Auto-generated destructor stub
}


AND when I try to define this GET function:

Node<Course> Student::getList() const{
return *newList;
}

Comes the problem which I mentioned in the title

It writes:
"make:*** [EX3] Error 1".
"recipe for target 'EX3' failed" with a reference to line 45 in "makefile"

I have search the internet for answers with no luck so far,
Hope you could help me.

[TheIdeasMan]

Hi,

Not sure if this is the problem but, all template code should be in the header file.

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/templates#templates-defn-vs-decl

[Hco123]

Ok good to know! i'll change that and i hope this would be the solution.