Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #11841: advapi does not exist on windows phone

erika@… — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:24:36 GMT

This is still valid for 1.62.0

Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:44:38 GMT

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?

owner, milestone changed

James E. King, III — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:36:55 GMT

owner changed from Andy Tompkins to James E. King, III
milestone To Be Determined → Boost 1.66.0

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.

status changed; resolution set

James E. King, III — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:37:03 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → wontfix

status changed; resolution deleted

anonymous — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 23:30:50 GMT

status closed → reopened
resolution wontfix

James E. King, III — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 23:32:29 GMT

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 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:21:15 GMT

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.

status changed; resolution set

James E. King, III — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:21:32 GMT

status reopened → closed
resolution → duplicate