Hi Joaqu?n,
Hi Volodya, I've reproduced the crash with options_description_test_dll and found the cause.
The problem has to do with a bug in Dinkumware stdlib (as shipped with VC++ 6.0, so it also affetcs Intel 7.1) by which one cannot share std::sets across DLLs. This impacts the methods options_description::keys(), options_description::primary_keys() and options_description::approximations().
Oh, so if DLL create std::set and passes it to application, the application crashes? Sweet ;-)
I've tried forcing the inlining of these member functions, to not avail.
Dinkumware folks posted a patch for this problem that you can read about here:
http://www.dinkumware.com/vc_fixes.html
Replacing the internal header <xtree> with the one available at the page solves the problem, I've just checked this out. So, my suggestion is that you mark this test as expected failure in MSVC and Intel and add an explanatory note with this info so that the user can apply the Dinkumware patch, if she wishes to do so.
Big thanks for diagnosing this. That's what I'll do now. - Volodya