C++ exceptions inside DLL (MinGW)

Question

I am making a Windows DLL in C++, MinGw 4.8. The library internally uses C++ classes and exceptions, but its interface is C-only, ie. no exception is propagated outside the library.

Unfortunately when I compile the library with -static option, the C++ exceptions are not caught. Even this simple example fails, the exception is not caught and the application is aborted:

try {
    throw std::logic_error("Hello World");
} catch (...) {
    std::cout << "Exception caught" << std::endl;
}

When I compile the library without -static command line switch, it works fine. The funny thing is that the older versions of my library used to work even with static linking and now I am quite confused why it stopped working...

I am calling the library from a simple testing C++ application compiled by the same compiler, but I need to make the library compatible also with other compilers/languages.

Please does anybody have a suggestion how to fix this problem?

EDIT: I tried to replace the -static option by -static-libstdc++ -static-libgcc options. Now when I remove -static-libgcc, exception handling works properly.

So my problem is related to static linking of libgcc, but I still cannot figure out why this matters. Any ideas?

EDIT2: When I debug my DLL, it calls _Unwind_RaiseException function embedded in the DLL. It looks like some kind of ABI incompatibility... Here the people deal with similar issue: C++ exceptions and the .eh_frame ELF section

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