[Mono-dev] Help Finding this Function?

[Rafael Teixeira]

You are looking at the wrong rand.c. They are switched on compilation
depending on the target platform.

Hope it helps,

Rafael Teixeira
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) <
edward.harvey.mono at clevertrove.com> wrote:

> > From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:miguel at xamarin.com]
> >
> > rand.c has several implementations, the CryptAcquireContext is part of
> the
> > Win32 support, and is a Win32 API call.
> >
> > There is also a Native client implementation and a Unix one.
>
> Thanks - But - What am I missing?  I don't have any "wincrypt.h" file
> anywhere in my mono source tree.  So I guess wincrypt.h exists in windows
> and not unix/linux...  I guess if you build on windows, it probably calls
> the Win32 API directly, and otherwise, some other functionally equivalent
> implementation takes its place...
>
> I'm confused about the meaning of a "native" implementation versus a
> "unix" one.  If I build on mac or linux, does that imply it uses the unix
> one?  Are you saying non-windows platforms (mac/linux) implement this call
> in a native library that's included in the OS?
>
> Sorry, I'm just still confused about how that gets hooked in, where it
> comes from....
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