advapi does not exist on windows phone

[Michael Lacher <milacher@…>]

Boost 1.59.0 introduces a hard dependency on advapi32.lib in "boost/uuid/see_rng.hpp" which does not exist on windows phone. This makes this library unusable for all windows phone builds.

[erika@…]

This is still valid for 1.62.0

[James E. King, III <jking@…>]

If you use either of the constructors of basic_random_generator which take a reference or a pointer to a UniformRandomNumberGenerator, those do not call detail::seed and therefore should be compatible. Given I don't currently have access to a windows phone build environment, do you have any local mods (perhaps similar to the _WIN32_WCE ifdefs) that resolve the issue?

[James E. King, III]

I believe if you use the following code it will resolve your issue, please try and see:

boost::mt19937 ran; boost::uuids::uuid uuid = boost::uuids::random_generator(ran)();

Further, it looks like Windows Phone is essentially dead now, so I am resolving this as wontfix. Feel free to reopen (with supporting comment, of course) if you disagree or you are not able to work around it.

[James E. King, III]

This issue was reported again here:

​https://github.com/boostorg/uuid/issues/24

The workaround provided was not sufficient so I submitted a PR to modify how we generate entropy for the default random generator constructor.

​https://github.com/boostorg/uuid/pull/25

[James E. King, III]

Given this is already being tracked in github issues I am going to resolve this one. Please follow it in github issues.

​​https://github.com/boostorg/uuid/issues/24

Current plans are to get boostorg/winapi to be UWP compatible, and then to update boost::random_device to be UWP compatible (and make the library header-only too), and then we won't need seed_rng any more in uuid.