Re: [Boost-users] boost::filesystem exception not caught on MacOS X

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-09 07:26:00

Lothar May:

...

> 2) Compile the static boost libs with -fvisibility=default (by patching
> the build file) and then
>
> g++ test.cpp -lboost_filesystem-mt-1_34_1 -o test
>
> Again, no linker warnings about visibility, but still the exception is
> not caught.

It strikes me that you're using the -mt version of libboost_filesystem, but 
at the same time seem to be compiling test.cpp in single-threaded mode by 
not passing -pthread. Could the two exception handling runtimes be different 
enough to not recognize each other's exceptions?