does the camera interrupt handler need to be in a task in the cc3200?

There is no such dependency. It should work.

Can you post pseudo code with Canera/interrupt APIs that you are using to enable/register interrupts

here is my setup code:

static void CamControllerInit()  // from camera_app
{
    
    MAP_PRCMPeripheralClkEnable(PRCM_CAMERA, PRCM_RUN_MODE_CLK);
    MAP_PRCMPeripheralReset(PRCM_CAMERA);

    // Configure Camera clock from ARCM
    HWREG(0x44025000) = 0x0101;
    //reset camera hardware
    MAP_CameraReset(CAMERA_BASE);
    //setup clk polarity
    MAP_CameraParamsConfig(CAMERA_BASE, CAM_HS_POL_HI,CAM_VS_POL_HI,
                       CAM_NOBT_SYNCHRO | CAM_IF_SYNCHRO | CAM_BT_CORRECT_EN |  CAM_PCLK_FALL_EDGE);

  //set the pixel clk freq
    MAP_CameraXClkConfig(CAMERA_BASE, 60000000,2000000);
   //set the fifo threshold
   MAP_CameraThresholdSet(CAMERA_BASE, 32);
   
   //register int handler
   MAP_CameraIntRegister(CAMERA_BASE, CameraIntHandler);
   //tell it to generate interrupt on fifo has hit threshold
   MAP_CameraIntEnable(CAMERA_BASE, CAM_INT_FIFO_FULL );
   
   //turn on dma
   MAP_CameraDMAEnable(CAMERA_BASE);
   MAP_CameraCaptureStart(CAMERA_BASE);  
}

Hi Seth,

My apologies for delayed response. Code looks ok.

Can you confirm that boardinit function is called in your main function

static void BoardInit(void)
{
// In case of TI-RTOS vector table is initialize by OS itself
#ifndef USE_TIRTOS
//
// Set vector table base
//
#if defined(ccs) || defined(gcc)
MAP_IntVTableBaseSet((unsigned long)&g_pfnVectors[0]);
#endif
#if defined(ewarm)
MAP_IntVTableBaseSet((unsigned long)&__vector_table);
#endif
#endif
//
// Enable Processor
//
MAP_IntMasterEnable();
MAP_IntEnable(FAULT_SYSTICK);

PRCMCC3200MCUInit();
}

I am curious to know whether interrupt vector table is set.

Also Let me check at our end and see if anything is missing. 

Also please confirm that you are linking to NON_OS\simplelink.a and not the OS version. I assume other relevant changes are also taken care in your application