Installing OpenMP on Mac OS X 10.11

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On a Mac, the command gcc is a symlink to Clang. So by calling

gcc -fopenmp -o your_program your_program.c

you are in fact using Clang, which until now has not had built-in support for OpenMP.

The newer versions of Clang do have support for OpenMP according to this post (where you can also find instructions on how to set it up).

On the other hand, if you still want to use gcc I can guide you through the steps that worked for me.

  1. Install gcc with brew. The command you used should work:

    brew install gcc --without-multilib

    Alternatively, if brew says that you already have gcc installed you can try

    brew reinstall gcc --without-multilib

    As you may have noted, if you don’t specify --without-multilib brew warns you that OpenMP may not work.

  2. Find the location of the newly installed gcc.

    Brew appends the version number to gcc so that it does not conflict with the one installed by Command Line Tools. You will find the symlink in usr/local/bin.

    In my case it’s

    usr/local/bin/gcc-5

    If you right-click and chose “Show original” it should show the gcc-5 executable in /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/5.3.0/bin/gcc-5 (version numbers may differ).

  3. Now you need to tell your system about it:

    When calling a compiler your bash will look into /usr/bin by default and not in /usr/local/bin. You need to add this directory to your $PATH.

    This can be easily done with the command:

    PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

  4. Now you should be able to compile with OpenMP enabled using:

    gcc-5 -fopenmp -o your_program your_program.c

Remark: gcc-5 is the version I have installed, yours might differ.

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