Using boost::random as the RNG for std::random_shuffle

Question

I have a program that uses the mt19937 random number generator from boost::random. I need to do a random_shuffle and want the random numbers generated for this to be from th

Answer 1

I thought it was worth pointing out that this is now pretty straightforward in C++11 using only the standard library:

#include 
#include 

std::random_device rd;
std::mt19937 randEng(rd());
std::shuffle(vec.begin(), vec.end(), randEng);