Re: [boost] [UUID] seed_rng on Windows

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:42:14 +0200, "Kaj Björklund" <kbjorklu@iki.fi> said:

Hi all,

It would be nice if seed_rng used CryptGenRandom (or something similar) on Windows instead of trying to open /dev/urandom.

This is a good idea. I will consider it.

The patch for seed_rng.hpp at:

http://www.dynaroad.com/win.diff

tries to use CryptGenRandom when BOOST_WINDOWS and _WINDOWS_ (i.e. windows.h has been included before uuid.hpp) are defined.

This seems to work on Windows XP SP2 and Visual Studio 2005.

Cheers, -kaj

Thanks, Andy Tompkins