Re: [Boost-users] error: no matching function for call to ‘boost::asio::basic_stream_socket<boost::asio::ip::tcp, boost::asio::stream_socket_service<boost::asio::ip::tcp> >::basic_stream_socket()’

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Note that if you need to delay the creation of the socket, you might consider using a smart pointer to a socket.

This should solve the issue - thanks! Will try it out...

Besides, you can define io_service as a member of you class, and pass it to asio objects: class my_class { my_class() : sock_(io_) {} private: // io_ must be declared *before* any other asio objects, which are going to be initialized with it! io_service io_; tcp::socket sock_; }; Note, however, that both io_ and sock_ are non-copyable.