diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index e2f6a6b32..20d4fe9ea 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ install:
 - uname -a
 
 build_script:
-- set CCCL_OPTIONS=--cccl-muffle /W3
+- set CCCL_OPTIONS=--cccl-muffle /W3 /EHsc
 - set CHECK_OPTIONS=CSHARPOPTIONS=-platform:%Platform%
   # Open dummy file descriptor to fix error on cygwin: ./configure: line 560: 0: Bad file descriptor
 - if "%OSVARIANT%"=="" bash -c "exec 0</dev/null && ./autogen.sh && time ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-ccache CC=$CC CXX=$CXX CFLAGS='-O2' CXXFLAGS='-O2' LDFLAGS='--cccl-link /LTCG' PCRE_CFLAGS='-I%PCRE_ROOT%/include -DPCRE_STATIC' PCRE_LIBS='-L%PCRE_ROOT%/lib/v110/%PCRE_PLATFORM%/Release/static/utf8 -lpcre8' --without-perl5 --without-go --with-boost=C:/Libraries/boost || cat config.log"