Re: Exception handling and Windows

[Yoann Le Montagner <yo35 melix net>]

Hi,

I've managed to get around my problem by building the gtkmm libraries by 
myself, with the latest version of the MinGW compiler.

Yoann


Le 04/08/2011 14:37, Yoann Le Montagner a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your help. I was using MinGW, version 4.5.2 (the one 
> provided on http://www.mingw.org/ ). I changed for the version you 
> suggested 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/sezero_20101003/),
> which labeled 4.4.5. With this version of the compiler, the behavior 
> of the testcase program is different, but is still wrong ! When 
> clicking on the button, I get :
>
> - with mingw 4.5.2:
> >terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::exception'
> >  what():  std::exception
> and then the program terminates
>
> - with mingw 4.4.5:
> >Call to my_exception_handler
> >terminate called without an active exception
> and then the program terminates
>
> The latest case behave as if the exception were first caught before 
> calling to 'my_exception_handler': if I comment the try-catch block in 
> this function, I get :
> >Call to my_exception_handler
> and then the program continues.
>
> Any idea?
>
> Yoann
>
>
> Le 04/08/2011 13:17, Armin Burgmeier a écrit :
> > Hi Yoann,
> >
> > are you using MinGW or MSVC? If the former, then you should make sure to
> > use the same compiler as the one the official binaries were built with,
> > see http://live.gnome.org/action/info/gtkmm/MSWindows/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Armin
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 11:50 +0200, Yoann Le Montagner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a problem with exception handling on Windows. In my application,
> > > I set up a global exception handler with the function
> > > Glib::add_exception_handler, so that this handler is supposed to be
> > > called when an exception is thrown during the execution of the main
> > > loop. It works fine when the program is built under Linux, but the
> > > exception handler set up by Glib::add_exception_handler is never called
> > > when the program is built under Windows.
> > >
> > > I enclose a simple testcase. When clicking on the button:
> > > - under Linux, the exception is normally catched in 
> > > my_exception_handler,
> > > - under Windows, the program terminates.
> > >
> > > What's wrong? Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > Yoann
> > >
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