Problem with virtual destructor

From:
ZikO <zebik@op.pl>
Newsgroups:
alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:52:40 +0000
Message-ID:
<gotqmq$49n$1@news.onet.pl>
Hi

What's wrong with this code? Why can't I compile this?
I have created a virtual destructor in one of my code in a base class to
be sure objects of all derived classes would be destroyed. However, the
compiler says "no" with this comments:

C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccLAUiQR.o:test2.cpp:(.text$_ZN1BD2Ev[B::~B()]+0x17):
undefined reference to `A::~A()'
C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccLAUiQR.o:test2.cpp:(.text$_ZN1BD0Ev[B::~B()]+0x17):
undefined reference to `A::~A()'
C:\DOCUME~1\User\LOCALS~1\Temp/ccLAUiQR.o:test2.cpp:(.text$_ZN1BD1Ev[B::~B()]+0x17):
undefined reference to `A::~A()'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This is a simple code which roughly represents the problem:

// code
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
class A {
public:
    virtual ~A() = 0;
};
class B : public A {};
class C : public B {};
class D : public C {};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    D d;
    A &a = d;
    return 0;
}
// end of code

Without lines in main everything compiles successfully.

Best

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