This function isn't something which comes with Foundation, it is supplied by
the BSD libraries on Darwin, but those aren't present on Linux.
I recommend looking for a Swift implementation of a high-quality RNG which will
meet your needs, rather than trying to rely on a non-portable implementation
coming from the base OS.
- Daniel
> On May 22, 2017, at 8:44 AM, Edward Connell via swift-users
> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote:
>
> Any ideas when Foundation on Linux will support arc4random_uniform? This is
> kind of an important function.
> There doesn't seem to be any decent substitute without requiring the
> installation of libbsd-dev, which turns out to be messy. Currently I am doing
> this, but glibc random with mod does not produce good quality numbers, due to
> modulo bias.
>
> Has anyone come up with a better solution to get a true uniform distribution
> that isn't super messy?
>
> import Foundation
>
> #if os(Linux)
> import Glibc
> #endif
>
>
> public func random_uniform(range: Int) -> Int {
> guard range > 0 else { return 0 }
> #if os(Linux)
> return Int(random()) % range
> #else
> return Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(range)))
> #endif
> }
>
>
> Thanks, Ed
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