friend class cannot call private constructor

Code below is a simplified version of something I was working with today. It has 2 classes A and B. Class B tries to use a private constructor of class A, but it fails. If I make the constructor public the code compiles fine. Why is that?

#include <vector>

class A
{
friend class B;
private:
    A(int * int_ptr) {
        m_int = *int_ptr;
    }
private:
    int m_int;
};


class B
{
friend class A;
public:
    static void create_vec_a() {
        int v1(1);
        int v2(2);

        std::vector<int *> int_ptr_vec{
            &v1,
            &v2
        };

        std::vector<A> a_vec(int_ptr_vec.begin(),
            int_ptr_vec.end());
    }
};

int  main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    B::create_vec_a();
    return 0;
}

Error I get in Visual Studio is:

'A::A': cannot access private member declared in class 'A'

On Clang:

test.cpp:28:18: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'std::vector<A, std::allocator<A> >::vector<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<int **, std::vector<int *, std::allocator<int *> > >, void>' requested here
            std::vector<A> a_vec(int_ptr_vec.begin(),
                           ^
test.cpp:7:2: note: declared private here
    A(int * int_ptr) {
    ^