Question

Here’s what I’ve got. I’m trying to create an instance of Foo within in Bar, using a custom constructor. When I try to call the constructor from Bar’s constructor I get and unresolved external.

class Foo
{
public:
    // The custom constructor I want to use.
    Foo(const char*);
};

class Bar
{
public:
    Bar();
    //The instance of Foo I want to use being declared.
    Foo bu(const char*);
};

int main(int argc, char* args[])
{
    return 0;
}

Bar::Bar()
{
    //Trying to call Foo bu's constructor.
    bu("dasf");
}

Foo::Foo(const char* iLoc)
{
}

Answer 1

This is probably what you want:

class Foo
{
public:
    // The custom constructor I want to use.
    Foo(const char*);
};

class Bar
{
public:
    Bar();
   //The instance of Foo I want to use being declared.
   Foo bu; // Member of type Foo
};

int main(int argc, char* args[])
{
    return 0;
}

Bar::Bar() : bu("dasf") // Create instance of type Foo
{
}

Foo::Foo(const char* iLoc)
{
}

As for this declaration: Foo bu(const char*); This is a declaration of a member function named bu which takes a const char* and returns a Foo. The unresolved symbol error is because you never defined the function bu, but you want an instance of Foo not a function.

Other method after seeing comments:

class Foo
{
public:
    // The custom constructor I want to use.
    Foo(const char*);
};

class Bar
{
public:
    Bar();
    ~Bar() { delete bu;} // Delete bu
   //The instance of Foo I want to use being declared.
   Foo *bu; // Member of type Foo
};

int main(int argc, char* args[])
{
    return 0;
}

Bar::Bar() : bu(new Foo("dasf")) // Create instance of type Foo
{
}

Foo::Foo(const char* iLoc)
{
}

And there are also many other problems with your code, maybe getting a book on C++ like C++ Primer would be a good idea.