Copy templated function argument in Eigen

Question

I am writing a generic class that utilizes Eigen data types. I already have problems assigning constructor arguments to class member variables. A simplified version of my code would be:

template <typename Derived>
class A
{
public:
  Eigen::Matrix<Derived> M; // error C2976: too few template parameters

A(const Eigen::DenseBase<Derived> & V)
{
  M = V.eval(); // I would want to snapshot the value of V.
}
};

My question is now what data type M should be? I tried a variety of options, such as:

Eigen::internal::plain_matrix_type_column_major<Derived> M;
Eigen::DenseBase<Derived> M;

but they just generate different errors. Note that I use C++17 and expect the class template parameter to be inferred from the constructor.

Answer 1

The declaration of the Eigen::Matrix variable M should be something like:

Eigen::Matrix<typename Derived::Scalar, Eigen::Dynamic, Eigen::Dynamic, Eigen::RowMajor> M; 

Then your code will compile. See Demo.

The detailed description of each of the template parameters can be found at this link.