This is a discussion on mingw program crashes when throwing exception inside secondary thread within the C++ Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; Originally Posted by Codeplug You can't recompile them? I have to convince my fellow developers here that it is necessary ...
I got gcc 4.4.0 working, and it solved the problem. I was able to recompile necessary libraries and eliminate unnecessary ones, and it works much better. thanks for the gcc 4.4.0 suggestion.