Generate random numbers in C++ at compile time

Question

I'm trying to precompute random values using C++11's random library at compile time. I'm mostly following examples. What am I doing wrong here?

using namespace std;
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <random>

vector<double> rands;
typedef std::mt19937_64 RNG;
uint64_t seed_val;
RNG rng; 

void initialize() {
     rng.seed(seed_val);
}

constexpr vector<double> generate_random( )                 //size_t numbers)
{   
    int numbers = 1000;
    std::uniform_real_distribution<double> zero_one(0.0, 1.0);
        for (unsigned int i = 0; i < numbers; i++) { 
             double rand_num = zero_one(rng);
             rands.push_back( rand_num );
    }
    return rands;
}

int main()
{
    cout << "TMP rands";
    for_each( rands.begin(), rands.end(), [] (double value)
    {
        cout<<value<<endl;
    });
}

Here's an example compile-time random number generator shamelessly stolen from here, but thought it might be useful for anyone who looks this up:

template<u32 S, u32 A = 16807UL, u32 C = 0UL, u32 M = (1UL<<31)-1>
struct LinearGenerator {
    static const u32 state = ((u64)S * A + C) % M;
    static const u32 value = state;
    typedef LinearGenerator<state> next;
    struct Split { // Leapfrog
        typedef LinearGenerator< state, A*A, 0, M> Gen1;
        typedef LinearGenerator<next::state, A*A, 0, M> Gen2;
    };
};

Answer 1

Only constexpr functions and constant expressions may be evaluated at compile time. That rules out <chrono> and <random>.

What you can do is access the __TIME__ preprocessor macro and define your own PRNG composed of one-line, constexpr functions.