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Enables arc4random_uniform in Swift on Ubuntu, just add this to the top of your main.swift file under the rest of your imports.
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arc4random_uniform_ubuntu.swift
#if os(Linux)
import SwiftGlibc
public func arc4random_uniform(_ max: UInt32) -> Int32 {
return (SwiftGlibc.rand() % Int32(max-1))
}
#endif
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monokrome commented Feb 10, 2017 •
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@rymcol Unlike arc4random, doesn't this have modulo bias problems?

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@rymcol thank you my friend for these lines. Blessings.

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