diff --git a/Lib/guile/std_except.i b/Lib/guile/std_except.i
index 61bf481a3..6c30a319f 100644
--- a/Lib/guile/std_except.i
+++ b/Lib/guile/std_except.i
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 // TODO: STL exception handling
 // Note that the generic std_except.i file did not work
 %{
+#include <typeinfo>
 #include <stdexcept>
 %}
 
diff --git a/Lib/typemaps/std_except.swg b/Lib/typemaps/std_except.swg
index cb5ed3050..75d066490 100644
--- a/Lib/typemaps/std_except.swg
+++ b/Lib/typemaps/std_except.swg
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 %enddef
 
 namespace std {
+  %std_exception_map(bad_cast,           SWIG_TypeError);
   %std_exception_map(bad_exception,      SWIG_SystemError);
   %std_exception_map(domain_error,       SWIG_ValueError);
   %std_exception_map(exception,          SWIG_SystemError);