Re: [Boost-users] Building boost to NOT USE built-in Visual Studio 2010TR1 random

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building boost to NOT USE built-in Visual Studio 2010TR1 random
From: nelis (neliswillers_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-05 02:37:02

John Maddock <boost.regex <at> virgin.net> writes:

> > The objective is to get exactly the same random number generator behaviour
> > for the same application built with VS2005, VS2010 and Gnu compilers.
> >
> 
> You can't force the Boost.TR1 library *not* to use the native version if 
> it's available since those names have already been taken up in std::tr1. 
> Just use Boost.Random directly instead.
> 
> HTH, John. 
> 

Thanks John, it did help!

After reading your reply and looking at the boost header files (read the 
flaming source!) I realised that one must use the boost::random namespace 
qualifier instead of std::tr1.  It works beautifully now!

thanks!

nelis