Fw: OpenMP on MacOS Clang

[Eric A. Borisch]

I've created a pull request [1] to incorporate this patch. As noted on the
PR, I have no way to test the end result; perhaps someone else would like
to try it?

Thanks,
  - Eric

[1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/8859

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:19 AM Christopher Chavez <chrischavez at gmx.us>
wrote:

> Hello Michael,
>
> Thank you very much for this information. I am forwarding this to the
> macports-dev mailing list for others who are involved in MacPorts more
> closely and for much longer than I have been.
>
>
> On Friday, October 16, 2020 at 6:32 PM, Mike Pique wrote:
>
> > I have a DTK and have built OpenMP both for arm64 an x86_64. You need to
> compile with “-Xclang -fopenmp” and to include the OMP header files. You
> need to link with -l omp and include the path to the run-time library
> directory. Example:
>
> > cc -I /usr/local/include -Xclang -fopenmp omp_hello.c -L /usr/local/lib
> -l omp -o omp_hello
>
> > For arm64, when you build the openmp run-time library you need to change
> 5 lines in the assembly language file Z_Linux_asm.S (disregard the historic
> “Linux” - it has #ifdefs for many platforms). On 24 September, I submitted
> my 5-line patch to the OpenMP group (differential ID D88252) where it is
> under review. The 5-line patch affects only arm64 builds and corrects an
> assumption in the code that MacOS (Mach-O) object files are never built for
> arm64; the patched version is completely x86_64-compatible.
>
> > I’ve not been able to figure out how to interest HomeBrew and MacPorts
> about this, presumable when eventually OpenMP adopts it (or something
> similar) that will flow downstream. But I had several pieces of our lab’s
> scientific software needing OpenMP so I went ahead for my work without
> waiting.
>
> > Let me know any suggestions on how, or whether, these changes should be
> put into MacPorts and/or HomeBrew. Thank you.
>
>
> MacPorts is likely interested in this. It currently has some support for
> OpenMP: the recommended approach would be for portfiles to specify
> `compiler.openmp_version`, so that an OpenMP-capable compiler and a
> MacPorts-provided libomp are used. But plenty of ports which could use
> OpenMP aren't doing so yet, or are not using it by default. One concert was
> the fact an alternative MacPorts-provided compiler was needed; this new
> info may help with using Xcode clang instead, which I wonder could be as
> simple as tweaking the paths to use MacPorts' libomp. There are still some
> other concerns, such as how using OpenMP in library ports affects building
> their dependents. I'm also not aware whether MacPorts has considered OpenMP
> on ARM64 yet either.
>
> Searching online for "-Xclang" "-fopenmp" reveals there are a few other
> interesting posts out there on the topic.
>
> Christopher A. Chavez
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/attachments/20201019/284cac1b/attachment-0001.htm>