std.random.uniform(1, 101) crashes. Why, and workaround.

[evilrat]

On Friday, 25 July 2025 at 01:04:31 UTC, Brother Bill wrote:
> From "Programming in D" book:
>
> import std.stdio;
> import std.random;
>
>     void main() {
>     	int number = uniform(1, 101);
>
>     	writeln("Edit source/app.d to start your project.");
>     }
>
>     Running it generates:
>     phobos64.lib(random_6ea_855.obj) : error LNK2019: 
> unresolved external symbol BCryptGenRandom referenced in 
> function _D3std6random__T15bcryptGenRandomTmZQuFNbNiNeJmZb
>     
> C:\Users\broth\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-app.d-99D1A2446E2CA5089AD8A9B31EA74F07\app.exe.tmp : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>     Error: linker exited with status 1120
>            C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\bin\HostX64\x64\link.exe /NOLOGO "C:\Users\broth\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-app.d-99D1A2446E2CA5089AD8A9B31EA74F07\objs\app.exe.obj" /OUT:"C:\Users\broth\AppData\Local\Temp\.rdmd\rdmd-app.d-99D1A2446E2CA5089AD8A9B31EA74F07\app.exe.tmp"  /DEFAULTLIB:phobos64  /LIBPATH:"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.44.35207\lib\x64" legacy_stdio_definitions.lib /LIBPATH:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.26100.0\ucrt\x64" /LIBPATH:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.26100.0\um\x64"
>     Error: undefined reference to `BCryptGenRandom`
>            referenced from `nothrow @nogc @trusted bool 
> std.random.bcryptGenRandom!(ulong).bcryptGenRandom(out ulong)`
>            perhaps a library needs to be added with the `-L` 
> flag or `pragma(lib, ...)`
>
>      *  The terminal process 
> "C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe 
> -Command & 'rdmd' 'c:\dev\D\21 - 
> 30\c27_a_do_while_loop\source\app.d'" terminated with exit 
> code: 1.
>
> Is there another way to get a random integer between 1 and 100?

could be this:
Windows link error with std.random.uniform() in v2.111 #10731
https://github.com/dlang/phobos/issues/10731