How to access private static class member inherited from a template class?

Question

I'm trying to access static variable inherited from the EventListener template, but it looks like the derived KeyboardListener class is not a friend of EventDispatcher. What am I doing wrong?

template <class T>
class EventListener
{
public:
    friend class EventDispatcher;
private:
    static int variable;
};

template <class T> int EventListener<T>::variable;

class KeyboardListener : EventListener<KeyboardListener> {};

class EventDispatcher {
    public:
        static void foo() {
            // this works
            std::cout << &EventListener<KeyboardListener>::variable << std::endl;
            // fails to compile with: 
            // 'int EventListener<KeyboardListener>::variable' is private
            std::cout << &KeyboardListener::variable << std::endl; 
        }
};

Answer 1

The default inheritance of classes is private. When you have

class KeyboardListener : EventListener<KeyboardListener> {};

You are inheriting privately from EventListener all the EventListener members are private. I think you ment to inherit publicly like

class KeyboardListener : public EventListener<KeyboardListener> {};

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